Sprout Lands: Tending the Endless Gift of Trees

William Bryant Logan

ISBN 10: 0393358143 / ISBN 13: 9780393358148

Editore: WW Norton & Co, 2020

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• Titolo: Sprout Lands: Tending the Endless Gift of Trees
• Editore: WW Norton & Co
• Data di pubblicazione: 2020
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0393358143
• ISBN 13: 9780393358148
• Rilegatura: Brossura
• Condizione: New

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Once, farmers and 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 felled 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 diverse woodlands that we have ever known. Arborist William Bryant Logan 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. He recovers the lost tradition that sustained human life and culture for ten millennia.

Informazioni sull?autore

William Bryant Logan is a practicing arborist and the author of three acclaimed books on nature: Dirt, Oak, and Air. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.