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Our Intimate Connections to Trees
University of California Press
July 2008
On Sale: July 2, 2008
336 pages
ISBN: 0520248562
EAN: 9780520248564
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
World-renowned canopy biologist Nalini Nadkarni has climbed
trees on four continents with scientists, students,
artists, clergymen, musicians, activists, loggers,
legislators, and Inuits, gathering diverse perspectives. In
Between Earth and Sky, a rich tapestry of personal stories,
information, art, and photography, she becomes our
captivating guide to the leafy wilderness above our heads.
Through her luminous narrative, we embark on a multifaceted
exploration of trees that illuminates the profound
connections we have with them, the dazzling array of goods
and services they provide, and the powerful lessons they
hold for us. Nadkarni describes trees' intricate root
systems, their highly evolved and still not completely
understood canopies, their role in commerce and medicine,
their existence in city centers and in extreme habitats of
mountaintops and deserts, and their important place in
folklore and the arts. She explains tree fundamentals and
considers the symbolic role they have assumed in culture
and religion. In a book that reawakens our sense of wonder
at the fascinating world of trees, we ultimately find entry
to the entire natural world and rediscover our own place in
it.
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