Read! Plant! Grow! Native Plants Book Club (1)
Tue, Nov 26
|Birch Tree Bookstore
Join us for a quarterly discussion of a book about plants and gardening! A collaboration with LCPL, Loudoun Wildlife and Watermark Woods.
Time & Location
Nov 26, 2024, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Birch Tree Bookstore, 11 W Market St, Leesburg, VA 20176, USA
About the event
If you can't attend in person, join virtually. Join from the LCPL meeting link.
The Language of Trees: A Rewilding of Literature and Landscape
Inspired by forests, trees, leaves, roots, and seeds, The Language of Trees: A Rewilding of Literature and Landscape invites readers to discover an unexpected and imaginative language to better read and write the natural world around us and reclaim our relationship with it. In this gorgeously illustrated and deeply thoughtful collection, Katie Holten gifts readers her tree alphabet and uses it to masterfully translate and illuminate beloved lost and new, original writing in praise of the natural world.
With an introduction from Ross Gay, and featuring writings from over fifty contributors including Ursula K. Le Guin, Ada Limón, Robert Macfarlane, Zadie Smith, Radiohead, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, James Gleick, Elizabeth Kolbert, Plato, and Robin Wall Kimmerer, Holten illustrates each selection with an abiding love and reverence for the…