How I Became a Tree - 9780300260441

Yale University Press

How I Became a TreeAuthor(s): Sumana Roy\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Yale University Press, United States\nImprint: Yale University Press\nISBN-13: 9780300260441, 978-0300260441\nSynopsis\nAn exquisite, lovingly crafted meditation on plants, trees, and our place in the natural world, in the tradition of Robin Wall Kimmerers Braiding Sweetgrass and Annie Dillards Pilgrim at Tinker Creek Sumana Roy has writtengrowna radiant and wondrous [url] Macfarlane, author of The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot Beautiful. . . . Roy weaves together science, nature, personal narrative, literature, sociology, and more to keep the reader turning pagesand to turn us all into tree-[url] Kramer, The Rumpus I was tired of speed. I wanted to live to tree time. So writes Sumana Roy at the start of How I Became a Tree, her captivating, adventurous, and self-reflective vision of what it means to be human in the natural world. Drawn to trees wisdom, their nonviolent way of being, their ability to cope with l.