Please join Yankee Bookshop and Norman Williams Public Library for this special event with Ethan Tapper, author of How to Love a Forest: The Bittersweet Work of Tending a Changing World.
Only those who love trees should cut them, writes Ethan Tapper, a forester and writer based in Vermont. In his new book, he asks how we respond to the harmful legacies of the past? How do we use our species' incredible power to heal rather than to harm?
Tapper walks us through the fragile and resilient community that is a forest. He introduces us to wolf trees and spring ephemerals, and to the mysterious creatures of the rhizosphere and the necrosphere.
Tapper argues that the actions we must take to protect ecosystems are often counterintuitive, uncomfortable, even heartbreaking. With striking prose, he shows how bittersweet acts – like loving deer and hunting them, loving trees and felling them – can be expressions of compassion. Tapper weaves a new land ethic for the modern world, reminding us that what is simple is rarely true, and what is necessary is rarely easy.
"Beautifully written, full of scenes those of us who live and love the forests of the northeast will recognize immediately."
— Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature
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