William Bryant Logan

Sprout Lands

Tending the Endless Gift of Trees

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Farmers once knew how to make a living fence and fed their flocks on tree-branch hay. 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 cut beeches to make charcoal to fuel ironworks. Shipwrights shaped oaks to make hulls. In order to prosper communities cut their trees so they would sprout again. Pruning the trees didn't destroy them. Rather, it created healthy, sustainable and diverse woodlands. From these woods came the poetic landscapes of Shakespeare's England and of ancient Japan. The trees lived longer.William Bryant Logan tra… Mehr

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ISBN: 978-0-393-60941-7
EAN: 9780393609417
Produktnummer: 27556678
Verlag: WW Norton & Co
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
Seitenangabe: 384 S.
Masse: H16.6 cm x B24.2 cm x D2.9 cm 638 g
Abbildungen: 15 black and white illustrations
Gewicht: 638
Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)

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.