Citations:dendrophobia

English citations of dendrophobia

1914, Natural History Society of Siam, The Natural History Bulletin of the Siam Society:

Dendrophobia, with which the pioneer is so strongly afflicted seems to persist even in the minds of many engineers;

1923 October, Robert Frost, “New HampshireNew Hampshire”, in New Hampshire […], New York, N.Y.: Henry Holt and Company, →OCLC, page 15:

[…] But his heart failing him, he dropped the axe
And ran for shelter quoting Matthew Arnold:
“ […] Remember Birnam Wood! The wood’s in flux!”
He had a special terror of the flux
That showed itself in dendrophobia.

1999, Donald Rayfield, Understanding Chekhov: A Critical Study of Chekhov's Prose and Drama:

The tree imagery that played such a part in the opening lines of the play is resumed in the horrific dendrophobia (always the worst vice that Chekhov can attribute to a character) of Natasha's last lines, Til have that fir avenue chopped down and then this maple.

2021, Gabriele Schwab, “Trees, Fungi, and Humans: A Transspecies Story”, in CR: The New Centennial Review, volume 21, number 3:

Years ago, I had a terrifying nightmare. […] Suddenly, the giant trees surrounding me ripped their roots out of the earth and began to run after me, chasing me all the way out of the forest. […] Later I learned that my dream had its roots in an ancient phobia of trees called dendrophobia, a primordial terror linked to a sense that trees are more alive than we think. For those suffering from dendrophobia, trees have a paradoxical mobility that enables them to use their roots to grab humans or even kill them by willfully dropping their branches on them. Dendrophobia, an officially recognized mental illness that may in extreme cases lead to institutionalization, is linked to trees being recognized not simply as living beings but rather as hostile ones, intent on inflicting harm on humans or even killing them.