A word or idiom for someone who loves trees

[alpacinou]

Is there a word or an idiom for a person who really loves trees?

I thought about this but I need something better.

Trees has always had a special place in my affections.

 

[NamelessKing]

Is there a word or an idiom for a person who really loves trees?

I thought about this but I need something better.

Trees has always had a special place in my affections.

Your sentence should read "Trees have always had..."

Not a teacher [STRIKE]tho[/STRIKE].

 

[emsr2d2]

"Dendrophile" appears to exist although it's not in main dictionaries. It should be noted that there is a suggestion that it refers to someone with an unnatural love of trees (ie someone who gains sexual gratification from them).

 

[alpacinou]

Your sentence should read "Trees have always had..."

Not a teacher [STRIKE]tho[/STRIKE].

I know I was sleepy last night!

So is this OK?

Trees have always had a special place in my affections.

 

[alpacinou]

"Dendrophile" appears to exist although it's not in main dictionaries. It should be noted that there is a suggestion that it refers to someone with an unnatural love of trees (ie someone who gain sexual gratification from them).

I love it! It's in Cambridge:

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/dendrophile

Is it widely understood by native speakers?

 

[emsr2d2]

I love it! It's in Cambridge:

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/dendrophile

Is it widely understood by native speakers?

How strange that that link didn't come up when I searched for the definition of the word. Well done for finding it. I would say that many native speakers would not understand it. It would necessitate them understanding what the prefix "dendro" refers to. It's not in common use so many people will never have stumbled across it.

 

[Rover_KE]

An arborist is

a specialist in the cultivation and care of trees and shrubs, including tree surgery, the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of tree diseases, and the control of pests.Botanya specialist in the cultivation and care of trees and shrubs, including tree surgery, the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of tree diseases, and the control of pests.Botanya specialist in the cultivation and care of trees and shrubs, including tree surgery, the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of tree diseases, and the control of pests.

(Collins)

They wouldn't do that job unless they felt some sort of affection for trees.

 

[jutfrank]

"Dendrophile" appears to exist although it's not in main dictionaries. It should be noted that there is a suggestion that it refers to someone with an unnatural love of trees (ie someone who gain sexual gratification from them).

I don't know what it says about me, but that's the first thing that I would think of.

I have a vague memory of reading about dendrophiles in an article about obscure paraphilia disorders (sexual perversions) in a psychiatry journal many years ago. Apparently, it's not as obscure as one might think.

 

[Tarheel]

There's tree hugger.

 

[emsr2d2]

There's tree hugger.

There is, although these days it's often used as a slightly pejorative term like "dippy hippy", someone who is "a bit too floaty and at one with Mother Earth".

Sadly, I've heard the wonderful Greta Thunberg referred to, in a very dismissive voice, as "another one of those bloody vegan tree huggers trying to tell us what to do!"

 

[alpacinou]

There's tree hugger.

Isn't that an insulting way of referring to environmentalists?

Can I say this?

My friends describe me as a tree hugger as trees have always had a special place in my affections.

 

[jutfrank]

Isn't that an insulting way of referring to environmentalists?

Basically, yes.

 

[Tarheel]

Isn't that an insulting way of referring to environmentalists?
Yes, it can be used that way.

Can I say this?

My friends describe me as a tree hugger as trees have always had a special place in my affections.

I think that's okay.

 

[tedmc]

I thought "special place in my heart" is more common than "special place in my affections".