| Book Review | Environmental History, 11.2

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| Book Review | Environmental History, 11.2 | The History Cooperative

Book Review

Teaching the Trees: Lessons from the Forest. By Joan Maloof. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2005. xvi + 156 pp. Illustrations, appendix, notes. $24.95.

Biologist Joan Maloof wants you to get into the practice of looking down instead of up when coming to a tree. More of the action is there. Even though most of it is "dead matter" (p. 132), a whole circle of life exists at the base of any tree, "a magical web of relationships" among fungi, flora, and fauna (p. xiii). Inspired by poet Ranier Maria Rilke and her own idiosyncratic interests, Maloof delves into these realms and presents a companionable primer for the general public on how to appreciate trees and forest ecology.

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