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The Language of Trees Katie Holten

Katie Holten — Thu, 09 Nov 2023 08:47:14 +0000

When I feel overwhelmed by what we’ve caused—biodiversity loss, climate change, ecocide, hunger, migration, pandemics, poverty, war—I find solace in the beauty of the living world, especially in trees. Trees are truthful. They fill me with joy. The simplicity and quiet wonder of trees, whether alone on a city footpath or together in a [...]

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The Overstory | Richard Powers

XR Writers Rebel — Tue, 23 Aug 2022 22:45:06 +0000

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Persons Unknown: Q&A with Simon CrumpSally O'Reilly

Simon Crump — Thu, 16 Jun 2022 07:56:51 +0000

In 2012 Sheffield City Council and the Department of Transport signed a 25-year contract with Amey plc to renew the city’s highways in a programme called ‘Streets Ahead’, at a cost to the taxpayer of £2.2 billion. As part of this contract, some 17,500 trees were due to be felled, most of them healthy. [...]

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Living With Trees | Robin Walter

Katie Percival — Mon, 07 Mar 2022 17:11:11 +0000

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The Treeline | Ben Rawlence

Katie Percival — Tue, 01 Feb 2022 12:37:02 +0000

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What’s in a name?Kyra Hanson

Kyra Hanson — Thu, 02 Dec 2021 08:00:38 +0000

Opposite the window where I type is a tree I have no name for. In summer, its fuchsia pink tendrils droop over the pavement like a flamboyant feather duster. I think of it often: the arbour beneath those arching branches, the gap in my mind where a name should be. In 2015, Sheffield’s street [...]

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Read: City Boy Talks To TreesRaymond Antrobus

Raymond Antrobus — Thu, 29 Oct 2020 09:00:32 +0000

Look at that tree, said Mimi, look at that tree and write about it. But Mimi, I don’t know the name of that tree. I can describe it but can’t distinguish it, tall, brown, bursting with leaves like a loaded wallet, autumn’s green and yellow receipts. Mimi, is it against my nature to notice the [...]

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Read: Tree Girl – A Short StoryClare Hobba

Clare Hobba — Thu, 15 Oct 2020 07:55:25 +0000

Each morning, I file my vlog. The leaves rustle round me and the squirrels curse at me but I hold up my phone and talk loudly at it. Yesterday, for the first time, I didn’t feel like it. Not much had changed so it seemed a shame to disturb the tree top talking about [...]

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Read: Q&A With Radio 4 ‘Book of the Week’ Author James CantonJames Canton

toby — Thu, 30 Jul 2020 07:30:01 +0000

Your new book is about a very special tree and – perhaps – it’s also about our relationship to time, human time versus ‘nature time’? Could you tell us a bit more about what inspired you to write it? Has your relationship with this tree changed the way you perceive other trees? Can you [...]

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