![]() ![]() I had never even heard about it until I was deep into research for my novel about trees. Is there a classic book you never got around to reading until recently?ĭonald Culross Peattie’s “A Natural History of North American Trees.” It is composed of two volumes that used to be classics and are now almost entirely forgotten. It changed the way that I think about the deep, hidden roots of our life on this planet. This latest volume, extending his peerless, lyrical attention to the subterranean, is profound in every sense of the word. Robert Macfarlane’s “Underland: A Deep Time Journey.” Macfarlane has been on a decade-and-a-half-long journey to restore us to presence and mindfulness of place. ![]() The author, most recently, of “The Overstory” was from an early age a “fan of awe”: “I liked reading about diatoms and stars, things from four hundred million years ago or a hundred thousand years from now.” ![]()
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