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Trees: Woodlands and Western Civilization

Trees: Woodlands and Western Civilization

Hayman, Richard

Paperback

Environmental StudiesLawns, Trees, & Shrubs

ISBN10: 1847250513
ISBN13: 9781847250513
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: Aug 30 2007
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.96
Height: 0.85 Width: 6.19 Depth: 8.89
Language: English

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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