Peter Wohlleben is the author of numerous books about the natural world including the New York Times bestseller The Hidden Life of Trees, The Inner Lives of Animals, and The Secret Wisdom of Nature, which together make up his bestselling The Mysteries of Nature Series. She teaches at Ashoka University in Haryana, India. Sumana Roy is the author of How I Became a Tree, Missing: A Novel, Out of Syllabus: Poems, and My Mother’s Lover and Other Stories. She is the founding editor of The Willowherb Review and a researcher at the University of Cambridge. Lee is a British-Canadian-Taiwanese environmental historian and author, most recently, of Two Trees Make a Forest. Moderating the event is Mary Evelyn Tucker, co-author of Journey of the Universe and co-founder of Yale’s Forum on Religion and Ecology. Together, they will discuss cultural constructs of forests and how disconnected those are from the growing reality of monoculture. Wohlleben’s Hidden Life of Trees illuminates the discreet social network of forests Lee’s Two Trees Make a Forest finds history in the canopy and Roy’s How I Became a Tree finds the shadows of branches throughout literature and philosophy. Lee, and Sumana Roy, three authors whose work embodies the language of trees. “On Trees” will feature a conversation between Peter Wohlleben, Jessica J. The Forest School at the Yale School of the Environment and Orion Magazine present a second event in a series to celebrate Orion’s new anthology, Old Growth.
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