Jan 17, 2025
"This oak tree and me, we're made of the same stuff."
—Carl Sagan
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"This oak tree and me, we're made of the same stuff."
—Carl Sagan
Amazon.com: The Magic of Trees eBook : Baumgartner, Jessica Marie: Books
Thank you everyone for making yesterday's release so very magical!
Faith and spirituality are such personal aspects of life that every time I write about it I wish to do so on a fun and respectful level.
The reviews keep pouring in and I'm humbled by all your kind thoughts on this heartfelt work.
Just check out what people are saying:
Nathaniel Tarn - Lyrics for the Bride of God / Section: The Artemision - Tree Books - 1973
Since it is almost Fall in New England we are thinking about the trees.
Árbol de los libros: buena cosecha la de 2017 (ilustración de Rainer Ehrt)
The Language of Trees: A Rewilding of Literature and Landscape by Katie Holten
Rating: 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟/5
Inspired by forests, trees, leaves, roots, and seeds, this book invites readers to discover an unexpected and imaginative language to better read and write the natural world around us and reclaim our relationship with it.
The concept of a Tree Alphabet is so lovely. To see different pages covered with the tree alphabet, to see the beauty of it, and the meaning behind each essay, article, and quote was amazing. I really enjoyed what each author had to contribute, making my world, our world, seem so infinitely vast and yet so so small.
I think my favorite essay was near the end by Robin Wall Kimmerer, called “Speaking of Nature”, about how we describe nature and how we can create new pronouns for the natural world instead of calling everything “it” as if the world is an object for us to use and abuse. I really like her usage of the pronoun “ki” and how that has roots in her Potawatomi language and culture. So cool!
“This is not our world with trees in it. It’s a world of trees, where humans have just arrived.”
—Richard Powers
I had my mom read to me while both of us were masking- a children’s book I found for free. It’s called “The Oak” by Andrienne Soutter-Perrot, illustrated by Eleonore Schmid. It’s a fun and informational book about oak trees, how they live, how they reproduce, and how important they are.
One of my favorite fun facts from this book is that trees perspire!