All About Trees

Book excerpts, quotes, and other wild thoughts.


Courage, Aldo Leopold
Counting-Out Rhyme, Edna St. Vincent Millay
Eleven Ways of Smelling a Tree, David G. Haskell
The Age of Wood, Roland Ennos
English Oak, Isabella Tree
Avocado, Roger Swain
The Forest, Roger Caras
The Golden Spruce, John Valiant
Hemlocks, John Bates
Address of Thanksgiving, Robin Wall Kimmerer
The Lost Woods, Edwin Way Teale
The Near Woods, Willard C. Davis
Our Living Ancestors, John Bates
The Overstory, Richard Powers
A Single Great Tree, Michael Pollan
The Social Life of Forests, New York Times
O, Tannenbaum
The Thunder Tree, Robert Michael Pyle
To Look At Any Thing, John Moffit
A Tree Quiz, Jim Nies
Wild Thoughts, David Quammen
Reading The Landscape of America, May Thielgaard Watts
The American Chestnut, Susan Freinkel
Wildness, Gavin Van Horn and John Hausdoerffer 

 “Ultimately we can all lay claim to the term native and the songs and dances, the beads and feathers, and the profound responsibilities that go with it. We are all indigenous to this planet, this mosaic of wild gardens we are being called by nature and history to reinhabit in good spirit. Part of that responsibility is to choose a place. To restore the land one must live and work in a place. To work in a place is to work with others. People who work together in a place become a community, and a community, in time, grows a culture. To work on behalf of the wild is to restore culture.”
“The Rediscovery of Turtle Island”, Gary Snyder, A Place In Space, Counterpoint (1995)