Roy, Sumana
How I Became a Tree
- ISBN 13:
- 9780300268140
- author:
- Roy, Sumana
- format:
- Paperback / softback
- publisher:
- Yale University Press
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2022
- Pages:
- 248
- Dimensions:
- 21.6 x 14 centimetres
- Genre:
- Science, Nature, Trees & Forests,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
How I Became a Tree is a meditation on plants, trees, and our place in the natural world. Sumana Roy explores the lessons that writers, artists, scientists, and spiritual figures have gleaned from their engagement with trees.
The book weaves together science, nature, personal narrative, literature, sociology, and more to create a captivating vision of what it means to be human in the natural world. Through her stunning meditations on forests, plant life, time, self, and the exhaustion of being human, Roy evokes the spacious, relaxed rhythms of the trees themselves.
Blending literary history, theology, philosophy, botany, and more, How I Became a Tree prompts readers to slow down and imagine a reenchanted world in which humans live more like trees. A love song to plants and trees, this book is an ode to all that is unnoticed, ill, neglected, and yet resilient.
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