ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on a range of conceptual issues relating to place, and in so doing we make connections with current themes in human geography, anthropology and landscape studies which address the theorization of nature-society relations and environmental discourse. It considers how trees are makers of place(s) and how place(s) are makers of trees. The first consideration is about how the physical, active, creative presence of trees in differing locations can play key yet shifting roles in the production of places and landscapes. The second consideration is about how trees are culturally constructed in a complex milieu, which depends both on their physical location and context and on their symbolic and imaginative locations within local and wider cultures. The chapter highlights the powerful yet often unnoticed roles which trees play in the construction of places and landscapes, and therefore to talk back to theoretical considerations of place which have had a prominent yet uneven status within human geography and beyond.
