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Reads tagged with “trees”

The Moving Story of the Dawn Redwood: How a Fossil Came Back to Life to Bring Humanity Together in the Middle of Our Deadliest War
The Moving Story of the Dawn Redwood: How a Fossil Came Back to Life to Bring Humanity Together in the Middle of Our Deadliest War

How an ancient survivor of the unsurvivable became a triumph of the human spirit in a divided world.

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The New Science of Plant Intelligence and the Mystery of What Makes a Mind
The New Science of Plant Intelligence and the Mystery of What Makes a Mind

“Every thought that has ever passed through your brain was made possible by plants.”

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How to Make a World: A Poem
How to Make a World: A Poem

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The Life of Trees: A Poem
The Life of Trees: A Poem

“I want to sleep and dream the life of trees, beings from the muted world…”

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Favorite Books of 2022
Favorite Books of 2022

From Rumi to Blake to Nick Cave, by way of trees, hummingbirds, grief, and music.

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Why Leaves Change Color and How We Become Who We Are: The Science of Chlorophyll and the Poetics of Personhood
Why Leaves Change Color and How We Become Who We Are: The Science of Chlorophyll and the Poetics of Personhood

“We reach forth and strain every nerve, but we seize only a bit of the curtain that hides the infinite from us.”

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How to Be a Tree: Notes on the Resilience of Letting Go
How to Be a Tree: Notes on the Resilience of Letting Go

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Magnolias and the Meaning of Life: Science, Poetry, Existentialism
Magnolias and the Meaning of Life: Science, Poetry, Existentialism

On cruelty, kindness, and the song of life.

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How to Be Less Harsh with Yourself (and Others): Ram Dass on the Spiritual Lessons of Trees
How to Be Less Harsh with Yourself (and Others): Ram Dass on the Spiritual Lessons of Trees

A simple perspective shift that reorients the roots of being.

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The Day Hermann Hesse Discovered the Meaning of Life in a Tree
The Day Hermann Hesse Discovered the Meaning of Life in a Tree

“It was the great and eternal made visible: a confluence of opposites, their fusing together in the fire of reality. It meant nothing… or, rather, it meant everything… and it was beautiful, it was happiness and meaning… like an earful of Bach or an eyeful of Cézanne.”

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