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How I became a tree
An exquisite, lovingly crafted meditation on plants, trees, and our place in the natural world, in the tradition of Robin Wall Kimmerer's Braiding Sweetgrass and Annie Dillard's Pilgrim at Tinker Creek "I was tired of speed. I wanted to live tree time." So writes Sumana Roy at th...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Haven
Yale University Press
2021
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Part I: A Tree Grew inside My Head
- Tree Time
- Women as Flowers
- The Kindness of Plants
- The Woman as Tree
- The Silence of Trees
- Part II: I Paint Flowers So They Will Not Die
- Drawing Trees
- Making Leaves
- The Literature of Trees
- Tree Sculpture
- Photographing Trees
- Part III: See the Long Shadow that is Cast by the Tree
- Portrait of a Tree
- A Brief History of Shadows
- X-raying Plants
- Feeding Light to Trees
- Becoming a Shadow
- Part IV: Supposing I Became a Champa Flower
- Rabindranath Tagore's Garden
- Studying Nature
- Part V: I Want to Do with You What Spring Does with the Cherry Trees
- Having Sex with a Tree
- Loving Trees
- Part VI: One Tree is Equal to Ten Sons
- Plants as Children
- The Curious Botanist
- Gardens and Adultery
- Part VII: Lost in the Forest
- Lost in the Forest
- The Religion of the Forest
- Wild Men and Lost Girls
- Part VIII: Under the Greenwood Tree
- Sitting Under a Tree
- The Buddha and the Bodhi Tree
- Part IX: The Tree is an Eternal Corpse
- The Death of Trees
- The Rebirth of Trees
- How I Became a Tree
- Epilogue
- Notes and References
- Bibliography