The Second International Conference – Slavonic Tree Stand

During the second meeting a humanistic reflection covers the subject of trees, i.e. plants which do not constitute a separate unit in natural taxonomy, but they stand out in the plant kingdom because of their structure, size and longevity. People have been fascinated by trees which were considered as gods and believed to have supernatural power in the past. Moreover, big concentrations of trees, i.e. forests inspired people with a feeling of fear, but they gave feeding, shelter and wood, a fact which helped to survive hard historical or climatic periods. Nowadays trees and forests are present in linguistic and cultural awareness of the humanity. Furthermore, trees function often as monuments of nature, valued because of their longevity and importance for a certain community. Wood became a material which contributed to development of culture, for example as a building material and a main component of paper from cellulose produced in large-scale from the 19th century, a fact which caused that storing, transferring and production of large amount of information resulted in a scientific, economic and cultural progress in the 20th century. Moreover, information became more accessible for an ordinary inhabitant of the Earth.