Title:
Sprout lands : tending the endless gift of trees
Author:
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Date:
2019
Publication Information:
New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2019]
©2019
Physical Description:
xiv, 332 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9780393609417
Abstract:
"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."--Jacket
Contents:
A tree to save New York -- Forgotten words -- Remembering -- The sprout lands -- Favorite things -- Branching -- Spaghetti forest -- On the levels -- The invention of the street -- The spring -- Mother hazel -- To lay a hedge -- Can you handle it? -- Space invaders -- A walk in the twelfth century -- Boat wood -- Hill girt -- The commons -- Remembering the future -- The rhythm of trees -- Standing and sitting -- Instrument of light -- Making good sticks -- The paradise of sprouts -- When wood won't sprout -- Sami pine -- Harvest of mast -- Nagereba -- Into the woods -- Ever more -- Volunteers -- What White's willow said.
Language:
English
