changed the way I think about pruning, and actually about trees in general in the most profound way.-Margaret Roach "A Way to Garden"Ī graceful homage abounding in fascinating discoveries.- "Kirkus Reviews (starred review)"īryant knows trees, and much more.
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He offers us both practical knowledge about how to live with trees to mutual benefit and hope that humans may again learn what the persistence and generosity of trees can teach. In this journey from the English fens to Spain, Japan, and California, William Bryant Logan rediscovers what was once an everyday ecology. Rather, it created the healthiest, most sustainable and most diverse woodlands that we have ever known. No place could prosper without its inhabitants knowing how to cut their trees so they would sprout again. Townspeople cut their beeches to make charcoal to fuel ironworks. Rural people knew how to prune hazel to foster abundance: both of edible nuts, and of straight, strong, flexible rods for bridges, walls, and baskets. Once, farmers knew how to make a living hedge and fed their flocks on tree-branch hay. ?Robin Wall Kimmerer, author of Braiding Sweetgrass
This deeply nourishing book invites us to reclaim reciprocity with the living world. Winner of the 2021 John Burroughs Medal for Distinguished Natural History Writing
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