WOODLANDS
by Oliver Rackham
Collins £25 pp623
"In the foreword to Woodlands Rackham lays out his credo — that trees are not 'merely part of the theatre of landscape in which human history is played out, or the passive recipients of whatever destiny humanity foists on them . . . (they are) actors in the play', with multiple interactions with time, and all other organisms, including people —
Rackham is a Renaissance man, an ecological Sherlock Holmes. He is also a national treasure. No other scientific writer has so lucidly demonstrated that humans and woods are ancient partners of linked origins, and could be so again..."
Link: Nothing so lovely as a tree - Sunday Times - Times Online.
Of all the creatures in The Lord Of The Rings, Wit found the tree-being Ents the most fascinating as a lass.
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