For the love of Trees and Nature: a short list of book recommendations.

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Lovingly foraged from the comments of those who came together for an online event by Point Reyes Books and Emergence Magazine related to Suzanne Simard’s book — Finding The Mother Tree.

Books

• Braiding Sweetgrass — Robin Wall Kimmerer
• Finding The Mother Tree — Suzanne Simard
• Sprout Lands: Tending the Endless Gift of Trees Book — William Logan
• The Songs of Trees: Stories from Nature’s Great Connectors Book — David George Haskell
• Mycorrhizal Planet: How Symbiotic Fungi Work with Roots to Support Plant Health and Build Soil Fertility — Michael Phillips
• To Speak for the Trees: My Life’s Journey from Ancient Celtic Wisdom to a Healing Vision of the Forest — Diana Beresford-Kroeger
• Tree Dreams — Kristin Kaye
• Entangled Life — Merlin Sheldrake

Bonuses: articles, films, websites

• ABOUT TREES (Tree alphabets)— Katie Holten
• Forest Medicine — The Science Behind How I Cope With Depression
• Forest Medicine, Japan. Related names: Yoshifumi Miyazaki, Qing Li
• Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World — Tyson Yunkaporta
• For The Wild — https://forthewild.world/about-us
• Treeline (Full Film) | The Secret Life of Trees
• Fantastic Fungi — Documentary/Film
• Watermelon Snow (book)— Lynne Quarmby
• EcoTheoReview.org — Enlivening conversations and commitments around ecology, spirituality, and art.
• The Center for Spirituality in Nature
• Holyscapes.org
• Just Press is an unusual publishing initiative.
• Reworlding Environmental Policy: How Oysters Come to Matter
• In The Trees — a blog post in context of Finding The Mother Tree
• https://eternalforest.earth/ — Eternal Forest is the vision to create 1000 Eternal Forest Sanctuaries across the World and to protect them for 1000 years.
• Amy Adams & Jake Gyllenhaal Team To Produce ‘Finding The Mother Tree’; Adams To Star In Adaptation Of Suzanne Simard Memoir — news link