How I Became a Tree
How I Became a Tree Sumana Roy's How I Became a Tree offers a new vision of what it means to be human in the natural world. "I was tired of speed," she writes, "I wanted to live to tree time." She is…
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How I Became a Tree
Sumana Roy's How I Became a Tree offers a new vision of what it means to be human in the natural world. "I was tired of speed," she writes, "I wanted to live to tree time." She is drawn to trees' wisdom, their nonviolent way of being, and their ability to cope with loneliness and pain. Hailed by reviewers as "a love song to plants and trees" and "an ode to all that is unnoticed, ill, neglected, and yet resilient," Roy's stunning meditations on trees, forests, plant life, time, self, agency, and more emulate trees' spacious, relaxed rhythms.
Lawrence to scientist Jagadish Chandra Bose and the Buddha. Roy movingly explores the lessons that writers, painters, photographers, scientists, and spiritual figures have gleaned through their engagement with trees--from Rabindranath Tagore and D. H. Blending literary history, theology, philosophy, botany, and more, this absorbing book
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