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The Songs of Trees: David Haskell in Conversation with Elizabeth Allison

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Date:
Wednesday, May 10, 2017
Time:
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Event Type:
Class/Workshop
Organizer/Author:
CIIS Public Programs and Performances
Email:
Phone:
415-575-6175
Location Details:
California Institute of Integral Studies
1453 Mission Street
San Francisco, CA 94103

Pulitzer Prize finalist David Haskell's book The Forest Unseen earned acclaim for eloquent writing and deep engagement with the natural world. His newest book, The Songs of Trees, explores nature's most magnificent networkers.

In The Songs of Trees, Haskell repeatedly visits a dozen trees around the world—exploring their connections with webs of fungi, bacterial communities, cooperative and destructive animals, and other plants. By unearthing charcoal left by Ice Age humans and petrified redwoods in the Rocky Mountains, Haskell shows how the Earth's climate has emerged from exchanges among trees, soil communities, and the atmosphere. Now humans have transformed these networks-powering our societies with wood, tending some forests, but destroying others. Haskell also examines trees in places where humans seem to have subdued nature—a pear tree on a Manhattan sidewalk, an olive tree in Jerusalem, a Japanese bonsai—demonstrating that wildness permeates every location.

Every living being is not only sustained by biological connections, but is made from these relationships. Haskell shows that this networked view of life enriches our understanding of biology, human nature, and ethics. When we listen to trees—nature's great connectors—we learn how to inhabit the relationships that give life its source, substance, and beauty.
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