Teaching The Trees
Author: Joan Maloof
Translator: Hye-myeong Joo
Publisher: Argos
200 pages | 223*152mm
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About This Book
Lessons From The Forest
Trees, the dominant life form of most undisturbed terrestrial ecosystems, get a
fitting tribute in this engaging collection of eco-meditations. In each short
chapter, Salisbury University naturalist Maloof profiles each familiar tree?from
the mighty oak to the humble holly?in the forests near her Maryland home and
explores its "magical web of relationships" with the plants, insects, birds,
mammals, fungi and people who rely on it. Along the way she gently voices her
environmentalist convictions, deploring the clear-cutting of mature forests and
their replacement with monoculture pine plantations, urging the use of recycled
paper and jousting with county officials who want to cut down a local forest for
the timber proceeds (she stymies them by declaring it a "September 11th Memorial
Forest" and draping the trees with tags bearing the names of the dead from
Ground Zero). Lyrical overtones are provided by sprinkled-in snippets of poetry
by Rilke, and illustrations by the 18th-century artist John Abbott add a lovely
visual touch. The resulting mix of scientific lore and acute personal
observation makes for a beguiling walk in the woods.
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