The Clearing

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How We Live and Die With Trees Trees are our silent, slow helpers and companions. The provide us with material so that we can be at home in the world, and they emit the oxygen which keeps us alive. They endure far longer than us, connecting generations of humans in a single tree-life. If they enable our existence, we abuse them in return. Fired up by selective readings of religious texts, we are making their lives impossible. The clearings we have created for our ‘civilisation’ are joining up and turning into deserts, impelled by frontier-pushers such as Davy Crockett and Bolsonaro. In the process these clearings are also extinguishing ancestral cultures who live in and with the forest. This book tells stories of perverted origin myths, ethnic genocide, ignorance of the natural world, and the horror of the climate crisis. Our resulting grief –personal and collective- is set against inspiring examples of kinship with our arboreal cousins: we will see an elderly bonsai continuing human filial bonds beyond the grave; precise, wonderful wood constructions in the Austrian forest giving shape to a gentle, respectful attitude to the forest; amazing vegetal animism in contemporary Japan; and an encounter with an improbable, regal forest guardian. If we are to survive as a species, we will have to refound our relations with the wood giants who welcome us here. This book shows how doing so will be a joyous endeavor.

The Clearing

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