Editing Oak (section)

=== History ===

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Several oak trees hold cultural importance; such as the [[Royal Oak (tree)|Royal Oak]] in Britain,<ref>{{cite web |title=Oak mythology and folklore |url=https://treesforlife.org.uk/into-the-forest/trees-plants-animals/trees/oak/oak-mythology-and-folklore/ |website=Trees for Life |access-date=29 September 2023}}</ref> the [[Charter Oak]] in the United States,<ref>{{cite web |date=2014-04-23 |title=The Legend of the Charter Oak |url=https://www.newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/legend-charter-oak/ |access-date=2021-04-23 |website=New England Historical Society |archive-date=2021-04-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210423002123/https://www.newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/legend-charter-oak/ |url-status=live }}</ref> and the [[Guernica oak]] in the [[Basque Country (greater region)|Basque Country]].<ref name="ElMundoTrees">{{cite news |author=unspecified |title=Otro árbol de Gernika |newspaper=[[El Mundo (Spain)|El Mundo]] |date=26 February 2005}}</ref> "[[The Proscribed Royalist, 1651]]", a famous painting by [[John Everett Millais]], depicts a [[Royalist]] hiding in an oak tree while fleeing from [[Oliver Cromwell|Cromwell's]] forces.<ref>[http://www.arborecology.co.uk/article_ancient_tree.htm Arborecology, containing a photograph of the Millais oak] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080828000601/http://www.arborecology.co.uk/article_ancient_tree.htm |date=28 August 2008 }}. arborecology.co.uk</ref><ref>Millais, J. G. (1899) [https://archive.org/details/lifelettersofsir01milliala ''Life and Letters of Sir John Everett Millais''], vol. 1, p. 166, London : Methuen.</ref>

In the [[Roman Republic]], a crown of oak leaves was given to those who had saved the life of a citizen in battle; it was called the "[[Civic Crown]]".<ref name="Credo"/> In his 17th century poem ''[[The Garden (poem)|The Garden]]'', [[Andrew Marvell]] critiqued the desire to be awarded such a leafy crown: "How vainly men themselves amaze / To win the [[Arecaceae|palm]], the oak, or [[Laurel wreath|bays]]; And their uncessant labors see / Crowned from some single herb or tree, ..."<ref>{{cite web |last=Marvell |first=Andrew |author-link=Andrew Marvell |title=The Garden |url=https://poets.org/poem/garden |website=Poets.org |access-date=29 September 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last=Summers |first=Joseph H. |title=Reading Marvell's 'Garden' |journal=The Centennial Review |volume=13 |issue=1 |year=1969 |pages=18–37 |jstor=23738134 |quote=Hortus, Marvell's Latin poem which seems to be an earlier version of the English one ... both poems begin with the rejection of the worlds of ambitious action, urban life and passionate love, and celebrate a supposed entrance into an entirely new life within the garden.}}</ref>