William Bryant Logan

Sprout Lands: Tending the Endless Gift of Trees

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This deeply nourishing book invites us to reclaim reciprocity with the living world.” —Robin Wall Kimmerer, author of Braiding SweetgrassOnce, farmers and 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. Townspeople felled their beeches to make charcoal to fuel ironworks. Shipwrights shaped oaks to make hulls. No place could prosper without its inhabitants knowing how to cut their trees so they would sprout again.Pruning the trees didn't destroy them. Rather, it created the healthiest, most sustainable and diverse woodlands that we have ever k… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-393-60942-4
EAN: 9780393609424
Produktnummer: 34249179
Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
Seitenangabe: 352 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 15'277 KB
Abbildungen: 15 black-and-white illustrations

Über den Autor

William Bryant Logan is a practicing arborist and the author of four acclaimed books on nature: Sprout Lands, Dirt, Oak, and Air. He is on the faculty of the New York Botanical Garden and lives in Brooklyn, New York.