{"product_id":"in-trees","title":"In Trees: An Exploration","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNamed a Best Book of the Year So Far by: \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e-\u003cb\u003e NPR \u003c\/b\u003e- \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Financial Times \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the acclaimed author of the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestseller \u003ci\u003eOn Trails \u003c\/i\u003ecomes a wondrous new journey through the wilds of nature and the gnarls of history, exploring how trees--from the mightiest sequoia to the tiniest bonsai--can teach us to grow wise.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne day, on a whim, Robert Moor set out to climb a tree near his home--unwittingly embarking on what would become a decade-long adventure of intellectual and spiritual transformation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePursuing the hidden wisdom of trees, he digs through forgotten archives, scales to the top of a giant sequoia with Sir David Attenborough, trudges through swamps in Papua to reach a treehouse-dwelling tribe of hunter-gatherers, and travels to a remote research camp in Tanzania, where he spends one very uncomfortable night sleeping in a chimpanzee nest. Galvanized by a radical new outlook on both our gnarled past and our ever-branching future, he ultimately falls in with a ragtag clan of climate activists risking everything to halt construction of an oil pipeline and save an old-growth forest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlong the way, Moor learns the art of \"treethinking,\" which, he discovers, has the power to break open some of humanity's oldest questions: What is the secret to truly growing old? How do we set down roots in an increasingly chaotic world? Can we ever learn to pursue our future in the farsighted, deeply entangled manner of an ancient forest?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA witty, relentlessly curious excursion through philosophy, history, and science, what begins as an ode to the miracle of trees blossoms into a joyous, daring, and fiercely hopeful effort to \"arborize humanity.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHailed by \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003eas a \"philosopher on foot,\" \u003cstrong\u003eRobert Moor\u003c\/strong\u003e is the bestselling author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eOn Trails\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003eand now \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eIn Trees\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. Translated into more than a dozen languages, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eOn Trails\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e garnered the National Outdoor Book Award, the Pacific Northwest Book Award, and the William Saroyan International Prize. \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eHis writing has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHarper's\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNew York \u003c\/i\u003emagazine\u003ci\u003e, Outside, Emergence \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e n+1,\u003c\/i\u003e among other publications. He lives in Halfmoon Bay, British Columbia. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eIn Trees\u003c\/i\u003e is dazzlingly erudite, playful, profound, adventurous and, above all, eloquently, fiercely \u003ci\u003ealive\u003c\/i\u003e. Full of brilliant, mind-bending insights and wonderful surprises, this is the most life-affirming book I've read in a long time.\"\u003cb\u003e--John Vaillant, National Book Award finalist for \u003ci\u003eFire Weather\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A beautiful book... impossible to put down.... I've been recommending it to everyone I know.\"\u003cb\u003e--David Wallace-Wells, on \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e' \"The Opinions\" podcast\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Gorgeous, honest, and soulful.\"\u003cb\u003e--Bryan Stevenson, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eJust Mercy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Earnest and passionate.\"\u003cb\u003e--NPR\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In the course of his explorations, the author has been transformed. 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