Remembering:

  Find an area where you can sit quietly beneath a tree. Get to know the tree by sight. Notice the bark, the length of the trunk, the limbs that branch off from the tree and their shape, the leaves, their shape and amount. Touch the tree, the leaves, walk around the tree as you look at and feel every detail. If I know what kind of tree it is, or at least know it is not poisonous, I will even taste the tree, the bark, inner bark, twigs or leaves.

  After doing this, sit down with a paper and pencil, turn your back to the tree and draw it from memory. Try to recall every detail you can remember about the tree, give it a name, write words that describe the tree for you.   

  After your picture is complete, turn back to the tree and draw the picture again. Look at the tree and try to capture as many details as possible on the paper. When done, match the two drawings together and see how similar they are. Do this with various trees, shrubs and plants. Eventually you will begin to see the drawings are more and more similar to each other as you learn to pay attention to detail when getting to know this wonderful spirit of Nature.