Hug a Tree

About the Book

This book is an inspiration that came to the author upon reading the five books written by Dianne Robbins, as dictated to her by the tree people. Ms. Robbins had also written books that were dictated to her in mental telepathy or mind communication. These books can be found in her website, DianneRobbins.com. The titles of Ms. Robbins’s books are Telos; Messages from Hollow Earth; Crystals; Whales, Dolphins and Cetaceans; and Tree People. We can help Ms. Robbins in her assistance to these creatures like us who are being mistreated and abused due to pollution and being caged in amusement parks by going to her website and perusing her available books on Kindle and on hard copies. After finishing Ms. Robbin’s book titled Tree People, the author had the insight of writing of our tree brothers and sisters’ story of survival of the fittest. We can help the trees and animals on land, sea, and air by being kind to them and leaving them alone. God made them just the way they are. Just like us, humans, the creator God made us just the way we look. So we support each other. The oxygen that we breathe or inhale comes from our fellow tree people, and the carbon dioxide that we exhale or breathe out becomes their air or oxygen that our fellow tree people breathe. This process is called symbiosis. We depend on each other for living here on our mother planet, earth. We have to love and respect each other. The author’s house in the Philippines, where she was born. She was surrounded with coconut trees, fruit-bearing trees, dogs, cats, pigs, ducks, and geese that roamed freely around their concrete fence. That is what trees and animals should be. Like human beings, who are their brothers and sisters, they should also be free to roam and not remain in cages in parks or recreational amusement centers to entertain people without getting paid. These fellow brothers and sisters of ours should be free to be in the wild or in the forests or in oceans or seas or lakes, where they can thrive and help us in our oxygen and symbiotic relationships for survival. The planet earth is our mother. We call it Mother Earth. It is because we live here, and earth protects us just like our parents. Truly, upon reading Ms. Robbins’s book, you will realize, dear readers, that the trees and animals in the sea or water and in the air are our brothers and sisters. They have our DNA cells too. We are all one. It is because we are all living organisms; even rocks or crystals have lives. Read it for yourselves.

About the Author

Juanita de Guzman Gutierrez was a Science teacher in the New York City Public Schools for many years. She had taught as a classroom teacher for more than thirty-three years. This scope started from ten years of teaching in the High School and the Universtiy of the East in the Philippines. Thirteen years in the Catholic Schools of the Archdiocese of New York, New York City, New York, USA. And another ten years as a Public School Teacher of the City of New York City Schools. Miss Gutierrez graduated with her Bachelor of Science in Education degree at the University of the East in Manila, Philippines. She received her diploma on her Master of Science in Education degree from Fordham University in Lincoln Center, New York City, New York, USA. After teaching in the Philippines for ten years where she was born and universtiy educated, Miss Gutierrez moved to New York City to teach under the Catholic Schools of the Archdiocese of New York assigned to teach in the elementary schools of Manhattan and The Bronx fto teach for thirteen years. She then transferred to the Public Schools of the City of New York and taught for another ten years as a Science and Literacy and Math teacher. Miss Gutierrez was elected teacher-association president. was a Teacher Institute resource speaker in the Catholic Schools of New York and in the New York City Schools where she had taught. She won a Nutrition Grant Proposal for her student's learning effectiveness to enhance good eating habits and to bring in their cultural heritage of different food recipes from their coutnries of origin. As a school paper adviser and English and Pilipino Journalism Teacher, Miss Gutierrez led her students to winning local and national student-writing contests. After teaching for thirty-three years in the Philippines and in New York City Schools, Miss Gutierrez felt a call to the religious life. She made a great leap of faith. She filed for early retirement and entered the contemplative and cloistered monastery in Virginia of the Visitation of Holy Mary to discern her call. Miss Gutierrez stayed for three years and three months and was received as a pre-postulant, postulant, and novice in the monastery. She was an Officiant or Leader of Song, rang the Angelus bells, prayed for five times a day, and did household work with the sisters of the congregation. Before she was to be professed as a religious nun, Miss Gutierrez had to abruptly leave the enclosure of the monastery life and her religious long holy habit to be the primary care giver of her beloved mother for eight months before her beloved mother was taken by her DIVINE CREATOR TO HEAVEN. The author had traveled in Europe with her beloved mother. Her beloved father was long past gone to Heaven, at this time. The author's father worked in the United States of America in Wake Island as a stenographer at the airport for more than twenty-five years and then retired and went to become twice-elected town mayor or barangay captain of Miss Gutierrez hometown in the Philippines, Calimpac, Guinayangan, Quezon. Miss Gutierrez went on pilgrimage tours after traveling with her mother while still allive in London, UK, Paris, France, Switzerland, Germany, The Netherlands, Belgium. On her pilgrimage tours, the author went to the Holy Lands, in Israel, Jerusalem, Palestine, Capernaum, Mount Tabor, Jordan River, Bethlehem, the City of David where our LORD JESUS was born. Miss Gutierrez went on to travel to Lourdes in France at the sight of the apparition of the MOTHER OF GOD, THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY. The author also had been to Fatima, Portugal where Our Lady of Fatima appeared to three chldren. She traveled to Madrin, Zaragoza in Spain, Rome, Vatican State, Italy, The author's father was a former Barangay Captain or Town Mayor where Miss Gutierrez first taught after her college graduation in Calimpac, Guinayangan, Quezon in the Philippines. The author's mother was also the first ever woman-elected public official in the history of the town. Her parents did not campaign . The author's father was unanimously elected for two terms or eight years while her mother won in a landslide victory in her bid for public official position. It was the townspeople who encouraged them to run for public office because of their care and concern for fellow folks who are less fortunates. The Gutierrez' house was always a conglomeration of different townspeople from any background who seeked help from the author's parents. During her teaching breaks, Miss Gutierrez had to always prepare some coffee and bread for all visitors. The Gutierrez household is surrounded with trees and plants and bushes. In addition, several dogs and cats, pigs, ducks and goose went around our house leisurely. Our house is surrounded with a concrete fence so they are free to roam wherever they want to be after feeding and still be safe. These plants and bushes were mostly planted by my grandfather, Canuto David, during the time that our house was buing built. Mother Nature is a great paradise to behold. As a child, the author with her siblings just picked fruits and vegetables to eat anytime they had wanted. This is a great blessings from GOD ALMIGHTY.