The Language of Trees A Rewilding of Literature and Landscape

Contents Introduction | Ross Gay | xiTree Alphabet | KATIE HOLTEN | xivTrees Typeface (A Rewilding Tool) | KATIE HOLTEN | xv SEEDS, SOIL, SAPLINGSThe Ojibwe New Year | WINONA LaDUKE | 3He who plants a tree Plants a hope | LUCY LARCOM | 7Michael Hamburger | TACITA DEAN | 9I am the seed of the free | SOJOURNER TRUTH | 11Palas por Pistolas | PEDRO REYES | 13Acorn Bread Recipe | LUCY O’HAGAN | 15 BUDS, BARK, BRANCHESOak Gall Ink Recipe | RACHAEL HAWKWIND | 19Branches, Leaves, Roots and Trunks | ROBERT MACFARLANE | 23Tree Theory, Biogeography and Branching | BRIAN J. ENQUIST | 29Cultivating the Courage to Sin | ANDREA BOWERS | 33The Wrong Trees | ZADIE SMITH | 35Fractal Vision | JAMES GLEICK | 37 LEAVES & TRUNKSIt’s the Season I Often Mistake | ADA LIMÓN | 43from Why Information Grows | CÉSAR A. HIDALGO | 45Tree University | FUTUREFARMERS | 47from Funes, the Memorious | JORGE LUIS BORGES | 49Under a Plane Tree | PLATO | 51Fake Plastic Trees | RADIOHEAD | 55The Trees Breathe Out, We Breathe In | LUCHITA HURTADO | 57The Elm Stand | THOMAS PRINCEN | 59The Exact Opposite of Distance | IRENE KOPELMAN | 63The Innocence of Trees | AGNES MARTIN | 65Medicine of the Tree People | VALERIE SEGREST | 67Blad 2 / Leaf 2 | ASE EG JORGENSEN | 69 FLOWERS & FRUITSfrom Sketch of the Analytical Engine | ADA LOVELACE | 73An Droighneán Donn | SUSAN McKEOWN | 75The Tree with the Apple Tattoo | NICOLA TWILLEY | 77Millenniums of Intervention | AMY HARMON | 81Cacao: The World Tree and Her Planetary Mission | JONATHON MILLER WEISBERGER | 85Tree of Life | ROZ NAYLOR | 91 FORESTSTwo Trees Make a Forest | JESSICA J. LEE | 97The Word for World is Forest | URSULA K. LE GUIN | 99from How Forests Think | EDUARDO KOHN | 101from Forests | GAIA VINCE | 107Bewilderness | E.J. McADAMS | 111from Islands on Dry Land | ELIZABETH KOLBERT | 113Ghost Forest | MAYA LIN | 117Forest | FORREST GANDER and KATIE HOLTEN | 121 FAMILY TREESBeing | TANAYA WINDER | 127BRUTES: Meditations on the myth of the voiceless | AMITAV GHOSH | 129Trophic Cascade | CAMILLE T. DUNGY | 133Catalpa Tree | AIMEE NEZHUKUMATAtHI | 135Notes for a Salmon Creek Farm Revival | FRITZ HAEG | 141We Are the ARK | MARY REYNOLDS | 145Among the Trees | CARL PHILLIPS | 149Mother Trees | SUZANNE SIMARD | 157 TREE TIMETree Clocks and Climate Change | NICOLE DAVI | 161from Alphabet | INGER CHRISTENSEN | 165The Horse Chestnut | CHARLES GAINES | 167Future Library | KATIE PATERSON | 169Liberty Trees | ROBERT SULLIVAN | 171January 23, 2015 | ANDREA ZITTEL | 179A Matter of Time | AMY FRANCESCHINI | 181All the Time in the World | RACHEL SUSSMAN | 185 TREE PEOPLEMujer Waorani / Waorani Women | NEMO ANDY GUIQUITA | 191TREE x OFFICE | NATALIE JEREMIJENKO | 193This is not our world with trees in it | RICHARD POWERS | 195I Want to Be a Tree | SUMANA ROY | 197What’s Happening? | EXTINCTION SYMBOL | 199Declaration of Interbeing | KINARI WEBB | 203 ROOTS & RESISTANCEWhy Are There No Trees in Paleolithic Cave Drawings? | WILLIAM CORWIN and COLIN RENFREW | 207Speaking of Nature | ROBIN WALL KIMMERER | 211“Joy is Such a Human Madness”: The Duff Between Us | ROSS GAY | 223Of Trees In Paint; In Teeth; In Wood; In Sheet-Iron; In Stone; In Mountains; In Stars | AENGUS WOODS | 225Legere and ß?ß???????: The Library as Idea and Space | ANNA-SOPHIE SPRINGER | 233Lessons from Fungi | TOBY KIERS | 241They Carry Us With Them: The Great Tree Migration | CHELSEA STEINAUER-SCUDDER | 245 AFTER TREESAfterword: Another World is Possible | KATIE HOLTEN | 253Bibliograph | 259Sources | 279Contributors | 287Acknowledgments | 299Colophon | 304