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Sprout Lands

Tending the Endless Gift of Trees

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Farmers once knew how to make a living fence and fed their flocks on tree-branch hay. Rural people knew how to prune hazel to foster abundance: both of edible nuts and of straight, strong, flexible rods for bridges, walls and baskets. Townspeople cut beeches to make charcoal to fuel ironworks. Shipwrights shaped oaks to make hulls. In order to prosper communities cut their trees so they would sprout again. Pruning the trees didn’t destroy them. Rather, it created healthy, sustainable and diverse woodlands. From these woods came the poetic landscapes of Shakespeare’s England and of ancient Japan. The trees lived longer.

William Bryant Logan travels from the English fens to Spain, California and Japan to rediscover and celebrate what was once a common and practical ecology—finding hope that humans may again learn what the persistence and generosity of trees can teach.

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Authors:
Logan, William Bryant
Country of Publication:
United States
Format:
Hardback
ISBN:
9780393609417
Illustrations Note:
15 black and white illustrations
Number of Pages:
384
Publication Date:
26/04/2019
Publisher:
WW Norton & Co
Year Published:
2019
Place of Publication:
New York
Language:
English
Imprint:
WW Norton & Co
SKU:
9780393609417

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