"In the play park across from your store after some serious swinging my daughter said she wanted to swing high enough to kick the trees, I joked that Treehugger Dan would come to tell her off and this started some serious discussion on the subject of treehuggers/treehugging. A few days later when she had processed it all we were walking around Margaret Island and had to keep prising her off trees she felt the need to hug." - George Peattie

From a travel blog "Headed to Saint Stephen's from Treehugger Dan's. (I want to be Treehugger Dan when I grow up.)"

Coming out of a Bardroom event earlier in the year at Treehugger Dan's, Lisa saw me approaching, threw her arms up in the air and yelled, "I'm a tree, I'm a tree!" The penny dropped and I duly hugged her with tacit approval of Nathan standing by.

When my friend Dora and I took her young nephews for an excursion on the chairlift (libego) and hike around
Janoshegy a few years back, the kids turned to Dora and asked "what does the bacsi (uncle) do?" I do not know what Dora answered, but when the kids went home to Eger, their mother called very upset with us. Peti and Bencze, no matter
what their mother said, would not stop cleaning garbage up off the street.

and lastly...an article sent by Rob from The Telegraph...I do not know why they do not simply use a tape measure, but it must be better than making liscence plates...By Nick Britten 14/07/2008 Excerpted from here
"Prisoners are being sent out into the grounds of their jails to hug trees as part of a Lottery-funded scheme. Ancient chestnuts have already been established in prison grounds near Birmingham The Woodland Trust is aiming to identify 100,000 ancient trees and said one of the recommended methods of predicting a tree's age was to measure it by hugging it. Jill Butler, Conservation Policy Officer for the Woodland Trust, said because many prisons are renovated stately homes, they often had very old trees in their grounds, which makes prisoners the ideal testers. A "hug" is calculated by measuring an adult with arms outstretched from fingertip to fingertip, approximately 1.5m. Ancient trees tend to be shorter but have fatter trunks, depending on their variety. To be declared ancient, an oak would normally require three "hugs" - three people standing round it fingertip to fingertip, while a beech may require two and a rowan only one hug. There are estimated to be more ancient trees in Britain than anywhere else in Northern Europe. Amongst the trees already known about are a yew in Scotland which experts say could be 5,000 years old and once provided a resting place for Pontius Pilate. Also there are the hollow trees which hid Charles II, those used by Robin Hood, others preached beneath by John Wesley and one in East Sussex which so impressed Queen Elizabeth that she left her shoes there."