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Sprout Lands: Tending the Endless Gift of Trees Hardcover – Illustrated, March 26, 2019
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Winner of the 2021 John Burroughs Medal for Distinguished Natural History Writing
"This deeply nourishing book invites us to reclaim reciprocity with the living world." ?Robin Wall Kimmerer, author of Braiding Sweetgrass
Once, farmers knew how to make a living hedge 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 their beeches to make charcoal to fuel ironworks. Shipwrights shaped oaks to make hulls. No place could prosper without its inhabitants knowing how to cut their trees so they would sprout again.
Pruning the trees didn’t destroy them. Rather, it created the healthiest, most sustainable and most diverse woodlands that we have ever known. In this journey from the English fens to Spain, Japan, and California, William Bryant Logan rediscovers what was once an everyday ecology. He offers us both practical knowledge about how to live with trees to mutual benefit and hope that humans may again learn what the persistence and generosity of trees can teach.
15 black and white illustrations- Print length384 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherW. W. Norton & Company
- Publication dateMarch 26, 2019
- Dimensions6.5 x 1.2 x 9.6 inches
- ISBN-100393609413
- ISBN-13978-0393609417
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― Library Journal (starred review)
"A graceful homage abounding in fascinating discoveries."
― Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
"William Bryant Logan’s vision of a world in which humans and trees work together to mutual benefit―a world that has existed in the past and can exist again in the future―is cause for deep joy, for celebration and hope."
― Peter Wohlleben, author of The Hidden Life of Trees
"Infused with intimately detailed attention to science and culture, this deeply nourishing book invites us to reclaim reciprocity with the living world. Logan reminds us of our capacity for 'a life where head, heart, and hand'―and tree―work together."
― Robin Wall Kimmerer, author of Braiding Sweetgrass and Burroughs medalist Gathering Moss
"Logan’s words are full of beauty, awe, and practical wisdom. At a time when forests are in crisis worldwide, his call to deeper, more intimate connection with our leafy cousins is both timely and important. Logan breaks out of the false dichotomy between romanticized protection and selfish exploitation of trees, showing that careful, enlightened blades and flames give life to people, trees, and community."
― David George Haskell, author of Burroughs medalist The Songs of Trees and Pulitzer finalist The Forest Unseen
"William Bryant Logan’s enthusiasm is contagious, his knowledge jaw-dropping. He has poured heart and soul into this beautiful book, his writing poetic but also practical, hopeful, brilliant. Logan is the Bernd Heinrich of trees. His work is heroic. When the book ends I am an unremitting, fiendish tree nerd. I had no idea I would fall this hard."
― Janisse Ray, author of Ecology of a Cracker Childhood and others
"If you feel profound respect and affection for trees, maybe even a touch of awe, then you’ll find a kindred spirit in William Bryant Logan…Logan takes us around the globe to show how woodlands have supported human life, and how humans, in turn, have cared for woodlands. We are the richer for the understanding he shares with us."
― Scott Russell Sanders, author of A Conservationist Manifesto
"[Sprout Lands] changed the way I think about pruning, and actually about trees in general in the most profound way."
― Margaret Roach, A Way to Garden
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- Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company; Illustrated edition (March 26, 2019)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 384 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0393609413
- ISBN-13 : 978-0393609417
- Item Weight : 1.41 pounds
- Dimensions : 6.5 x 1.2 x 9.6 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #604,314 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #404 in Trees in Biological Sciences
- #1,080 in Ecology (Books)
- #1,462 in Environmentalism
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しかし、本書の価値はその意図にある。著者は現代の造林がまっすぐで工業的に扱いやすいが切り株から再生しない針葉樹に偏り、再生を繰り返して事実上永遠に生命を保つ広葉樹の利用が廃れたことを嘆き、その再生に取り組む世界中の人々に会い、生き生きと描いている。このような本がアメリカ人の手によって書かれたということも注目すべきだろう。