Oak leaves in nature, design, heraldry and literature

tree leaves, if it is not evergreen tropical plants tend to bloom every year from buds, but with the onset of autumn yellow, wither, otmiraya and fall off.Oak is not an exception.Its beautiful shiny oblong-ovate leaves with ragged edges are sinusoidoobraznymi tree synthesis tool for solar energy, which is necessary for his growth and life.It's no secret that a plant devoid of ultraviolet rays, are killed.

In the fall the tree itself as it "falls asleep" - all life processes in it are slowed down.The leaves, which in the spring and summer "worked" on the oak, now becoming obsolete.

Yes, and to maintain their ability to live in water is needed micronutrients.With sheet surface moisture evaporates.In winter, oak and so difficult to extract water from the ground.Wood therefore "fall asleep" to conserve moisture.

also approaching cold may freeze liquid in the cells of the leaf.Nature has provided everything.That is why before the onset of winter, the trees shed their leaves.

«There stands a green oak tree ..." With these words associated with many childhood fairy magical journey into the world of Pushkin's poetry.And what else can be the association in connection with this tree?Beauty

form which has an oak leaf, eternity vlёchёt people - has in it something indescribably wonderful, wonderful, fascinating.Because it is so often used that image designers in their creations.For example, in stores often labels and price tags shaped like a carved oak leaf.Bottle of perfume in the form of an acorn with leather leaves offer perfumery departments.Such kind of jewelry demand.

The interior design is also often used oak leaves as a basic element.It can be seen on the wallpaper, ornaments, cutting boards, as drawing the curtains and upholstery, cast-iron decorations.Perhaps this is because the tree itself is a symbol of strength, durability, stability, moguchest.

Creating your gorgeous models, fashion designers are also turning their attention to the oak leaves.Figure imitating him, used to connect a combination of clothes.For example, the upper part of the coat is made of sand-colored drape, and the bottom - from dark brown.

junction of the two colors is not a straight line, as well as if the dark brown oak leaves superimposed on the beige background.It turns beautiful, a trivial thing, especially if in the model there are other "symbolic" details: wooden buttons and finishing pockets, brooch acorn.

very beautiful applique on the fabric in the form of oak leaves adorning clothes and tablecloths, bedspreads on the furniture and bedding, towels and kitchen apron.

It's been virtually association-life.As for the other areas of our existence?For example, the symbol which stands an oak branch?More

mentioned in the Scriptures is a tree, as a symbol of God's justice, and oak leaves was familiar fullness of Christian life.In the US, such leaves are used as elements of the awards, and also a symbol in the sign of the military.

In Germany, recognized as a national oak tree.The hardness of the wood and the characteristic shape of leaves symbolize immortality, stability and inviolability of unity.Not without reason, and state symbols and coins, and in the monuments and in heraldry and orders in Germany used oak twigs, acorns and leaves themselves.The Age of Romanticism attributed this same tree More and loyalty.

And how literary works are a symbolic name?Today, everyone knows the book, "Oak leaf" Ladino author Antonin Petrovich, the hero of which is Valerian Bochkin, lyric poem Lermontov's "Leaf".

Shipulsky Andrzej and Zbigniew Safyan - Polish writers, created under the pseudonym "Zbyha" a series of adventure stories, told in his writings about the exploits of Hans Klos.This brave scout extracted in the terrible years of World War II, shocking information about the Nazis.And it is also very symbolic, "German" symbols and the name of the operation, "Oak leaf".

What else comes to mind when you say the phrase "oak branch"?Of course, the medicinal properties of this "king of the world of wood."One smell in the oak forest is able to lift the mood, purify the soul, to instill in her enthusiasm, optimism and thirst for life.

a broom made of branches of a mighty healer of old wood used by the Russian people in the baths, banishing illness and ailments.Contained in oak leaves substances and essential oils have a beneficial effect on the respiratory system, the state of the epithelium, prevent high blood pressure.Decoction of oak bark stop bleeding gums, diarrhea.

That's how much you can learn about the usual oak leaf, to be curious and attentive.And if you connect more and your imagination, you can come up with a lot of amazing stories, characters who are surprising the leaves of the tree - oak, tell these magical stories for children and offer them to implement it in their drawings.