Sacred grove
A small stand of trees left uncut for reasons older than agriculture — wild land kept around for what it remembers.
A sacred grove in a dream is the dream's image of wild land kept around for what it remembers. The grove is not productive; the old farmer left it alone for reasons that predate the farming. The dream brings the sacred grove when something in your life — a piece of family land, a saved practice, an old room never rearranged — is being kept uncut not because of its economic use but because of what it carries. A sacred grove left undisturbed is the dream affirming the kept memory. A sacred grove cleared for new use, with the old trees coming down, is the dream noting that an inheritance that did not earn its keep on modern terms has been removed, and what it held is leaving with it.