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The noted novelist examines the impact of nature on his own life and on that of urban "civilized" man, concentrating in particular on his fascination with trees and their key role in all of his fiction
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"The most original argument for wilderness preservation I have encountered."--Washington Post
"Please read this book. It says the most important thing, and with a lovely succinctness. Step off the narrow path, so cleverly engineered for you, into the deep cathedral of the woods-where there are no engineers and the true self abides."--Lydia Millet, author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist LOVE IN INFANT MONKEYS
""The Tree" is a powerful, absorbing and beautifully written meditation on the connection between man and nature. . . . [A] magnificent and perfectly poised argument for a form of conservation that is even more pertinent now than when it was first published."--"Financial Times"
"Delightful... The real subject of this arboreal excursion is not trees at all, but the importance in art of the unpredictable, the unaccountable, the intuitive, the not discernibly useful."--Atlantic Monthly
"THE TREE defies easy definition and even genre. Whatever else it happens to be-memoir, philosophy, natural history-the book is a kind of forest, and Fowles a masterful field guide. He shows us the hidden place where the woods and literature converge."--Brad Kessler, author of GOAT SONG
"[John Fowles] is a master of style, evident in the ease with which he transforms the abstract into the highly tangible, without sacrificing any of the subtleties."--Christian Science Monitor
""The Tree" is part memoir, part explanation and part warning, one of the most beautiful, succinct and prescient pieces of writing we have."--"Los Angeles Times Book Review"
"A revelation."--"The Paris Review" "Daily"
"THE TREE is the fullest and finest exploration I've ever read of how the useless delights to be discovered in nature can ripen into the practice of art."--Lewis Hyde, author of THE GIFT
"The Tree" is part memoir, part explanation and part warning, one of the most beautiful, succinct and prescient pieces of writing we have. --"Los Angeles Times Book Review""
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"Please read this book. It says the most important thing, and with a lovely succinctness. Step off the narrow path, so cleverly engineered for you, into the deep cathedral of the woods-where there are no engineers and the true self abides."--Lydia Millet, author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist LOVE IN INFANT MONKEYS
""The Tree" is a powerful, absorbing and beautifully written meditation on the connection between man and nature. . . . [A] magnificent and perfectly poised argument for a form of conservation that is even more pertinent now than when it was first published."--"Financial Times"
"Delightful... The real subject of this arboreal excursion is not trees at all, but the importance in art of the unpredictable, the unaccountable, the intuitive, the not discernibly useful."--Atlantic Monthly
"THE TREE defies easy definition and even genre. Whatever else it happens to be-memoir, philosophy, natural history-the book is a kind of forest, and Fowles a masterful field guide. He shows us the hidden place where the woods and literature converge."--Brad Kessler, author of GOAT SONG
"[John Fowles] is a master of style, evident in the ease with which he transforms the abstract into the highly tangible, without sacrificing any of the subtleties."--Christian Science Monitor
""The Tree" is part memoir, part explanation and part warning, one of the most beautiful, succinct and prescient pieces of writing we have."--"Los Angeles Times Book Review"
"A revelation."--"The Paris Review" "Daily"
"THE TREE is the fullest and finest exploration I've ever read of how the useless delights to be discovered in nature can ripen into the practice of art."--Lewis Hyde, author of THE GIFT
"The Tree" is part memoir, part explanation and part warning, one of the most beautiful, succinct and prescient pieces of writing we have. --"Los Angeles Times Book Review""
'The most original argument for wilderness preservation I have encountered' Washington Post
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- Publication date1983
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- ISBN 13 9780316289573
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