What can trees teach us about time, survival, and how to live? In In Trees, Robert Moor—the celebrated author of On Trails—sets out in search of the hidden wisdom of trees, moving from giant sequoias to bonsai, from Papua to Tanzania, and into the front lines of climate activism. Along the way, he discovers what he calls “tree-thinking”: a way of seeing the world that stretches across evolutionary history, human memory, and the uncertain future of the planet. By turns philosophical, funny, and deeply felt, In Trees is a book about roots and branching, endurance and change, and what the natural world can still teach us in an age of chaos.
Presented in Association with Damascus Citizens for Sustainability.
Date
Jun 19, 6:00pm to 7:00pm
Featuring
Robert Moor
Robert Moor is an award-winning writer and New York Times-bestselling author. His work has appeared in the New Yorker, the Guardian, Harper’s, the Atlantic and Granta, among others. Moor’s first book, On Trails, won the National Outdoor Book Award, the William Saroyan Prize and the Pacific Northwest Book Award. It was named The Telegraph’s Best Travel Books of 2016 and the Guardian Bookshop’s Best Nature Writing of 2016. He lives in British Columbia.
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