Why this word is great
ARBOROLATRY — [Noun] The worship of trees. From Latin arbor ("tree") and Greek -latreia ("worship"). Unlike "dendrolatry" (which shares the meaning but leans on Greek roots) or "animism" (which diffuses reverence across all nature), arborolatry is a singular devotion to the towering, rooted sentinels of the earth. It is the druid tracing fingers over bark as if reading scripture, the pilgrim leaving offerings at the gnarled base of an ancient oak, or the city-dweller pressing a palm to a sidewalk-hemmed maple in silent apology—a recognition that what stands above us also sustains us, and that to venerate a tree is to worship life itself.