The oak papers / James Canton
- Bib ID:
- 8548651
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Canton, James, author
- Description:
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- Carlton, VIC : Black Inc., [2020]
- ©2020
- 237 pages ; 21 cm
- ISBN:
- 9781760642594 (paperback)
- Invalid ISBN:
- 9781743821442 (ebook)
- Summary:
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Oaks are born and they die on the same patch of earth. It is that surefootedness that is so appealing. Ancient oaks hold a powerful sense of longevity ... You can stand beneath a grand oak and know that your more distant ancestors did so too.James Canton spent two years sitting with and studying the Honywood Oak. A colossus, it would have been a sapling when the Magna Carta was signed in 1215. Inevitably, he needed to slow down in order to appreciate it fully, to tune in to its gentler time frame, to connect with the ecosystem that lives around, inside and under it.In this meditative treatise, Canton examines our longstanding dependency on trees, and how that has developed and morphed into myth and legend. We no longer build our houses and boats from the sturdy oak and its relatives, use them to fuel our fires or grind their seeds into flour in times of famine; we don't need them in the same way now. Or do we?This stunning, restorative book reveals the lessons we can learn from the natural world, if only we slow down enough to listen.
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- Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-237)
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