About the Book
"Brilliant, powerful, fascinating" ROBERT MACFARLANE
"Deeply thoughtful" ROBIN WALL KIMMERER
"Robert Moor is a rare and luminous talent" FERRIS JABR
"Dazzlingly erudite, playful, profound, adventurous" JOHN VAILLANT
To truly grasp the wisdom of a tree, you need to begin thinking like one... From New York Times bestselling author Robert Moor comes a wondrous, curious journey through the wilds of nature and the gnarls of history, exploring how trees – from the mightiest sequoia to the tiniest bonsai – can teach us to grow wise.
One day, on a whim, Robert Moor set out to climb a tree near his home, unwittingly embarking on what would become a decade-long adventure in trees. From Darwin to Attenborough, Brecht to Wordsworth, cutting-edge scientists and Zen monks and Bonsai artists, In Trees explores the fundamental and meaningful role of trees in the natural world.
In a globe-spanning adventure, from Ethiopia and Papua to the Sierra Nevada mountains and the Lake District, Moor uncovers extraordinary stories of how trees have become embedded in our culture, lifestyle and imagination for centuries, becoming the key to almost everything on our planet.
What began as an ode to the miracle of trees blossoms into a joyous, daring, fiercely hopeful endeavour that reveals. . . a tree is not just a type of being, it is also a way of being. A way of being that's open-minded, playful, rigorous and resilient, and most of all, deeply rooted.
About the Author :
Robert Moor is an award-winning writer and New York Times bestselling author, based in British Columbia. He has written for The New Yorker, New York Magazine, The New York Times, GQ, Haper’s, Granta, and many more. His first book On Trails was a New York Times bestseller and won the National Outdoor Book Award, the William Saroyan Prize and the Pacific Northwest Book Award. It was named one of Waterstones’ Best Travel Writing of 2016, The Telegraph’s Best Travel Books of 2016 and The Guardian Bookshop’s Best Nature Writing of 2016.
Review :
Robert Moor's brilliant In Trees is –– like its subject –– powerfully, fascinatingly arborescent: it branches and roots, gnarls and delves. Moving from sky to earth, Robert Moor unfurls in fine-grained prose the ancient, urgent story of how trees transform us. Reading it, I felt my senses of time, life and process shift in ways I hadn't experienced before. It left me arboresced."
Widely branched and deeply rooted, In Trees is a deeply thoughtful exploration of how we unrooted humans value- and devalue- our arboreal relations. With adventurous journeys, lively storytelling and provocative reflection, Moor invites us along to know charismatic forests through the eyes of other worldviews, encouraging our own Green Revelation to guide us through these urgent times.”
Robert Moor is a rare and luminous talent, and In Trees is his best work to date...To read this book is to feel oneself anchored more firmly to the earth and, simultaneously, to become more open to life‘s many branching, wild possibilities.
Those who loved On Trails are rewarded for their patience with this new book, another in that rare category of 'classic upon publication.' I've lived out my life in places with far more trees than people, and this volume helps me understand why.
In Trees is dazzlingly erudite, playful, profound, adventurous and, above all, eloquently, fiercely alive. Full of brilliant, mind-bending insights and wonderful surprises, this is the most life-affirming book I’ve read in a long time
A profound and loving, shrewd and funny pilgrimage, in which trees are living things but also verbs and ways of life. Moor finds so much beauty, and so much historical rubbish to clear away, in this bold, wild search to understand how he should live.
Brilliantly written, supremely intelligent, and philosophically provocative.
Moor’s nature writing is beautiful and refreshingly original. The result is a moving testament to the power of trees.
A wanderer’s dream, even from an armchair
Moor writes about one subject as a way of touching on 100 others… He’s a philosopher on foot
