I put quite a few trees in last autumn. A lot of silver birch and a couple of native trees - just generally doing gardening, putting plants in and hedges in. It takes quite a lot of time and I love it.
- Sean BeanOne will never again look at a birch tree, after the Robert Frost poem, in exactly the same way.
- Amy Butler(But if Boyden grew up canoeing across cold-water lakes and tramping through the birch forests with his relatives, no one ever explained their connection. His parents were raised during the 1930s when native heritage was considered shameful and many mixed-race people would pretend to be white.) I think my grandmother lived with this quietly, unhappily, ... My mother just refused to recognise it so didn`t grow up with any kind of prejudice.
- Arthur Gray