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About the Book
Named a Best Book of the Year So Far by: The New Yorker • NPR • The Financial Times
From the acclaimed author of the New York Times bestseller On Trails comes a wondrous new journey through the wilds of nature and the gnarls of history, exploring how trees—from the mightiest sequoia to the tiniest bonsai—can teach us to grow wise.
One day, on a whim, Robert Moor set out to climb a tree near his home—unwittingly embarking on what would become a decade-long adventure of intellectual and spiritual transformation.
Pursuing the hidden wisdom of trees, he digs through forgotten archives, scales to the top of a giant sequoia with Sir David Attenborough, trudges through swamps in Papua to reach a treehouse-dwelling tribe of hunter-gatherers, and travels to a remote research camp in Tanzania, where he spends one very uncomfortable night sleeping in a chimpanzee nest. Galvanized by a radical new outlook on both our gnarled past and our ever-branching future, he ultimately falls in with a ragtag clan of climate activists risking everything to halt construction of an oil pipeline and save an old-growth forest.
Along the way, Moor learns the art of “treethinking,” which, he discovers, has the power to break open some of humanity’s oldest questions: What is the secret to truly growing old? How do we set down roots in an increasingly chaotic world? Can we ever learn to pursue our future in the farsighted, deeply entangled manner of an ancient forest?
A witty, relentlessly curious excursion through philosophy, history, and science, what begins as an ode to the miracle of trees blossoms into a joyous, daring, and fiercely hopeful effort to “arborize humanity.”
Appearances
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Learn MoreJackson Hole Book Festival at Trailborn Jackson Ho
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FESTIVAL - Kingston Writers Festival, In Conversation with Andrew Westoll. Moderated by Gregory McCormick.
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Learn MoreHaystack Book Festival at Norfolk Library
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Morton Arboretum
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FESTIVAL - Vancouver Writers Festival, In Conversation with Jason Dove Mark and John Vaillant. Hosted by Arno Kopecky
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Toronto International Festival of Authors
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Houston Botanical Garden
Product Details
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster (April 20, 2027)
- Length: 384 pages
- ISBN13: 9781476739267
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Raves and Reviews
“A beautiful book... impossible to put down.... I’ve been recommending it to everyone I know.”
—David Wallace-Wells, on The New York Times' "The Opinions" podcast
“Gorgeous, honest, and soulful.”
—Bryan Stevenson, New York Times bestselling author of Just Mercy
"Earnest and passionate."
—NPR
“Robert Moor’s brilliant In Trees is—like its subject—powerfully, fascinatingly arborescent. Moving from sky to earth, 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.”
—Robert Macfarlane, New York Times bestselling author of Is a River Alive?
“Daring, inspired, and wide-ranging, this is much more than a book about trees. To read this book is to feel oneself anchored more firmly to the earth and, simultaneously, to become more open to life’s many branching, wild possibilities.”
—Ferris Jabr, New York Times bestselling author of Becoming Earth
“A new book in that rare category of ‘classic upon publication.’”
—Bill McKibben, New York Times bestselling author of Here Comes the Sun
“A sage, companionable and fulgent meditation on how best to be human… The prescription is simple: live like a tree.”
—The Times Literary Supplement
“With adventurous journeys, lively storytelling, and provocative reflection, Moor invites us to know charismatic forests through the eyes of other worldviews in order to guide us through these urgent times."
—Robin Wall Kimmerer, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Serviceberry
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