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Outside Magazine, March 2007

Make Like a Tree
For his March Out of Bounds column, our man Eric Hansen got up close and sappy with an unlikely group of artists: 50 Leyland Cypress trees. Listen to a podcast version of the story, read by Hansen, and see some of his photos of the trees and their keeper.

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Photo by Eric Hansen

Podcast: The School of Sap
Eric Hansen reads his March column, about Jonathon Keats and his belief that trees are artists too. To prove it, he lined up 50 Leyland cypress trees to make it happen.

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The School of Sap Gallery
Check out Eric Hansen's photos of the trees and their keeper in action.

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