teaching+the+trees

This remarkable collection of essays are written by an eastern shore (Maryland) environmental studies professor at Salisbury State University. It's chock-full of amazing facts and stories, some personal. Really evokes the magic, the spirituality, the poetry of trees.

Example: "Researchers working in the Sierra Nevada found 120 chemical compounds in the mountain forest air - but they could only identify 7o of them! We are literally breathing things that we don't understand. When we lose our forests we don't know what we're losing."

Written by Joan Maloof. Subtitle: Lessons from the Forest. Sadly, already out of print but amazon has several new and used copies.