Readings in Wood : What the Forest Taught Me /

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"Award-winning nature writer John Leland offers a collection of twenty-seven short, poetic essays that marry science and the humanities as the author seeks meaning in trees. Readings in Wood is an investigation of trees and forests and also of wood as a material that people have found essential...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Leland, John, 1950- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Columbia, South Carolina : University of South Carolina Press, [2015]
Temas:
Trees.
Trees > Symbolic aspects.
Forests and forestry.
Human-plant relationships.
Human ecology.
Trees
Arbres.
Arbres > Aspect symbolique.
Relations homme-plante.
Écologie humaine.
human ecology.
trees (woody plants)
GARDENING > Fruit.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Agriculture > General.
LITERARY COLLECTIONS > Essays.
Forests and forestry
Human ecology
Human-plant relationships
Trees > Symbolic aspects
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Among the graves of trees
  • By indirections find directions out
  • Stumped
  • Old fields
  • Crowns
  • Abandoned beds
  • Fungi
  • 1.618
  • Maple leaf drive
  • Shit
  • The vegetable gospel
  • "What place is this? Where are we now?"
  • The doctrine of signatures
  • Sex
  • Breezes
  • Pining for the past
  • Burial alive
  • Shelving
  • Indicator species
  • A moving grove
  • A tangled bank
  • Sweet and sour
  • Round and round the mulberry bush
  • A forest field
  • Snow falling on water
  • My grandchildren's forest.

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