Robert Moor's brilliant In Trees is like its subject powerfully, fascinatingly arborescent: it branches and roots, gnarls and delves. Moving from sky to earth, Robert Moor unfurls in fine-grained prose the ancient, urgent story of how trees transform us. Reading it, I felt my senses of time, life and process shift in ways I hadn't experienced before. It left me arboresced." -- Robert Macfarlane * author of Is a River Alive? * Widely branched and deeply rooted, In Trees is a deeply thoughtful exploration of how we unrooted humans value- and devalue- our arboreal relations. With adventurous journeys, lively storytelling and provocative reflection, Moor invites us along to know charismatic forests through the eyes of other worldviews, encouraging our own Green Revelation to guide us through these urgent times. -- Robin Wall Kimmerer * author of Braiding Sweetgrass * Robert Moor is one of the few I'd trust to bring a fresh perspective to trees and he does not disappoint. By turns earthy and philosophical, what a captivating and exhilarating book! -- Tristan Gooley * author of How to Read a Tree * In In Trees, Robert Moor leads us on a luminous journey into the living forests who gather and sustain us. With deep compassion, empathy and clarity, he reveals a captivating world of intricate connection and intelligence that reshapes how we see trees - and roots our place among them. Wise, profound, and quietly transformative; this is a book I will press into the hands of loved ones -- Sophie Pavelle * author of To Have Or To Hold: Nature's Hidden Relationships * In Trees is an abundant forest of poetry, philosophy, prose, passion and piercing dendrology. Travelling a book with Robert Moor is like paddling a river of tremendous elegance and inspiration. While devouring this genre defying book I frequently went out to climb to the crowns of the giant mother trees in the Celtic rainforest around my home and recapture the spirit of playfulness, youth and connectedness that Robert drenches his work in -- Merlin Hanbury-Tenison * author of Our Oaken Bones * Moments of high adventure segue into deeply serious and very moving explorations of the foundational relationship between people and trees. This wide-ranging and enlightening book left me even more sure that renewing this ancient connection will play an essential role in our efforts to shape a better future -- Luke Barley * author of Ancient: Reviving the Woods That Made Britain * Robert Moor is a rare and luminous talent, and In Trees is his best work to date...To read this book is to feel oneself anchored more firmly to the earth and, simultaneously, to become more open to lifes many branching, wild possibilities. -- Ferris Jabr * author of Becoming Earth * In Trees is dazzlingly erudite, playful, profound, adventurous and, above all, eloquently, fiercely alive. Full of brilliant, mind-bending insights and wonderful surprises, this is the most life-affirming book Ive read in a long time -- John Vaillant * author of Fire Weather * Robert Moor is a writer of extraordinary sensitivity and insight and he has discovered such riches here. In Trees is a wise, moving and ever-branching book that reaches from root to leaf to heartwood, and asks what we might learn from our arboreal neighbours about living well. -- Helen Jukes * author of A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings * In Trees is profound and deepening, written with flair and originality. Everyone should read it even people who arent much into trees -- Jini Reddy * author of Wanderland: A Search for Magic in the Landscape *
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