Politics & the Primeval Forest
In Foresters, Borders, and Bark Beetles: The Future of Europe’s Last Primeval Forest we encounter foresters, scientists (one an eccentric aristocrat), a “man of the forest,” and activists. Each of four core chapters focuses on one of these figures, usually through a single person, and through their varied commitments to Białowieża, an ancient forest in…
It was their generosity that made them so lush and green
Sheila Heti, Pure Colour: “She hadn’t known that plants were the grateful recipients of all consciousness—not only of people, but of snails and squirrels and the sun and the rain; that it was their generosity that made them so lush and green, the very colour of welcome. Was every tree so peppered with the consciousness…
Sapwood and Heartwood
Michael Christie, Greenwood: ” Even when a tree is at its most vital, only ten percent of its tissue—the outermost rings, its sapwood—can be called alive. All the rings of inner heartwood are essentially dead, just lignin-reinforced cellulose built up year after year, stacked layer upon layer, through droughts and storms, diseases and stresses, everything…
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