More Trees Please discussion

What books do you suggest we read? Drop your recommendations below, including fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and essays. Anything that deepens our relationship with trees, forests, or the more-than-human world.

A few to get us started:

The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben

Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

The Nature Fix by Florence Williams

The Forest Unseen by David George Haskell

Awe by Dacher Keltner

Tell us: what's the book that first made you pay attention to the living world?

I've found books that cover environmental policy to be especially engaging. Off the top of my head I can only recommend Florida water and environmental policy because I've just finished a few of those.

I'll take some time to look up others that might be more broadly interesting to this group. I'm thinking maybe finding some stuff on policy and forestry - how humans have tried to regulate how we interact and who can interact with trees and how they pay or don't pay for that privilege.

Vyki wrote: "I've found books that cover environmental policy to be especially engaging. Off the top of my head I can only recommend Florida water and environmental policy because I've just finished a few of th..."

That's a great idea. I have a large list of those types of books from the environmental courses I've taken. It's a bit of a mess and I've been meaning to create a personal shelf for them. I'll work on this as well.

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The poetry is emotional and visual. As a nature therapy guide I can feel the invitations to commune with the more than human world flow off the page. If you enjoy Robin Wall Kimmerer, you will enjoy enjoy this author from British Columbia.

Nature Within: How the Natural World Shapes Our Minds, Bodies & Health

One of Andrew Robinson's best science picks.

Andrew Robinson is a writer based in London and author of Earthshock (1993), The Story of Measurement (2007) and Einstein in Oxford (2024).

Hey everyone: I too am a fellow tree lover. I get upset when I see city ones with that awful orange dot on it (signifying it'll be cut down). And yes, I do hug them and clap 'Bravo' when I see a flowering one in full bloom.

I'm also an author and I've written a book called Banking The Fire about back-country camping, if anyone is interested. If you do read it and like it, please consider reviewing it as every little bit helps when you're self-published. Thanks!