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Trees - Woodlands and Western Civilization (Paperback, New edition)
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Trees - Woodlands and Western Civilization (Paperback, New edition)
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Trees are special, being bigger than us both physically and
metaphorically. "Trees: Woodlands and Western Civilization" is an
account of our relationship with them. Adam and Eve were expelled
from Eden for eating from the Tree of Knowledge and the great tree
Yggdrasil was central to Norse mythology. Tacitus, followed by
German nationalists and historians of liberty, located freedom in
the German forests. Medieval forests were both protected hunting
parks and the refuge of Robin Hood. Shakespeare contrasted the
simplicity of life in the Forest of Arden with the artificial
manners of the court, and indeed poets from Virgil to Hardy have
drawn inspiration from trees. While eighteenth-century aristocrats
controlled trees in plantations around their houses, Romantics
delighted in vast untamed forests, and the American Henry Thoreau
withdrew into the woods to reintegrate himself with nature.
Throughout history, our views of trees have been affected by the
changing use of woodland and the effects of deforestation and
urbanisation. How we see trees today will dictate how trees are
treated in the future.
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