Nearly 30 years after it withstood the blast of a 4,000-pound bomb, the Survivor Tree—an American elm that became a symbol of resilience after the Oklahoma City bombing—continues to spread its message ...

There are a handful of deep symbolic "forms," as Joel Smith, the Peter C. Bunnell curator of photography at the Princeton University Art Museum, sees it. The circle, the spiral, the arrow, the grid, ...

Do artists and scientists see the same thing in the shape of trees? As a scientist who studies branching patterns in living things, I’m starting to think so. Piet Mondrian was an early 20th-century ...

As guardian of the occupied West Bank's oldest olive tree, Salah Abu Ali prunes its branches and gathers its fruit even as violence plagues the Palestinian territory during this year's harvest. "This ...