CONTENTS Introduction Ross Gay xi Tree Alphabet KATIE HOLTEN xiv Trees Typeface (A Rewilding Tool) KATIE HOLTEN xv SEEDS, SOIL, SAPLINGS The Ojibwe New Year WINONA LaDUKE 3 He who plants a tree Plants a hope LUCY LARCOM 7 Michael Hamburger TACITA DEAN 9 I am the seed of the free SOJOURNER TRUTH 11P alas por Pistolas PEDRO REYES 13 Acorn Bread Recipe LUCY O''HAGAN 15 BUDS, BARK, BRANCHES Oak Gall Ink Recipe RACHAEL HAWKWIND 19 Branches, Leaves, Roots and Trunks ROBERT MACFARLANE 23 Tree Theory, Biogeography and Branching BRIAN J. ENQUIST 29 Cultivating the Courage to Sin ANDREA BOWERS 33 The Wrong Trees ZADIE SMITH 35 Fractal Vision JAMES GLEICK 37 LEAVES & TRUNKS It''s the Season I Often Mistake ADA LIMÓN 43 from Why Information Grows CÉSAR A. HIDALGO 45 Tree University FUTUREFARMERS 47 from Funes, the Memorious JORGE LUIS BORGES 49 Under a Plane Tree PLATO 51 Fake Plastic Trees RADIOHEAD 55 The Trees Breathe Out, We Breathe In LUCHITA HURTADO 57 The Elm Stand THOMAS PRINCEN 59 The Exact Opposite of Distance IRENE KOPELMAN 63 The Innocence of Trees AGNES MARTIN 65 Medicine of the Tree People VALERIE SEGREST 67 Blad 2 / Leaf 2 ÅSE EG JØRGENSEN 69 FLOWERS & FRUITS from Sketch of the Analytical Engine ADA LOVELACE 73 An Droighneán Donn SUSAN McKEOWN 75 The Tree with the Apple Tattoo NICOLA TWILLEY 77 Millenniums of Intervention AMY HARMON 81 Cacao: The World Tree and Her Planetary Mission JONATHON MILLER WEISBERGER 85 Tree of Life ROZ NAYLOR 91 FORESTS Two Trees Make a Forest JESSICA J. LEE 97 The Word for World is Forest URSULA K. LE GUIN 99 from How Forests Think EDUARDO KOHN 101 from Forests GAIA VINCE 107Bewilderness E.J. McADAMS 111 from Islands on Dry Land ELIZABETH KOLBERT 113 Ghost Forest MAYA LIN 117 Forest FORREST GANDER and KATIE HOLTEN 121 FAMILY TREES Being TANAYA WINDER 127 BRUTES: Meditations on the myth of the voiceless AMITAV GHOSH 129 Trophic Cascade CAMILLE T. DUNGY 133 Catalpa Tree AIMEE NEZHUKUMATAtHI 135 Notes for a Salmon Creek Farm Revival FRITZ HAEG 141 We Are the ARK MARY REYNOLDS 145 Among the Trees CARL PHILLIPS 149 Mother Trees SUZANNE SIMARD 157 TREE TIME Tree Clocks and Climate Change NICOLE DAVI 161 from Alphabet INGER CHRISTENSEN 165 The Horse Chestnut CHARLES GAINES 167 Future Library KATIE PATERSON 169 Liberty Trees ROBERT SULLIVAN 171 January 23, 2015 ANDREA ZITTEL 179 A Matter of Time AMY FRANCESCHINI 181 All the Time in the World RACHEL SUSSMAN 185 TREE PEOPLE Mujer Waorani / Waorani Women NEMO ANDY GUIQUITA 191 TREE x OFFICE NATALIE JEREMIJENKO 193 This is not our world with trees in it RICHARD POWERS 195 I Want to Be a Tree SUMANA ROY 197 What''s Happening? EXTINCTION SYMBOL 199 Declaration of Interbeing KINARI WEBB 203 ROOTS & RESISTANCE Why Are There No Trees in Paleolithic Cave Drawings? WILLIAM CORWIN and COLIN RENFREW 207 Speaking of Nature ROBIN WALL KIMMERER 211 "Joy is Such a Human Madness": The Duff Between Us ROSS GAY 223 Of Trees In Paint; In Teeth; In Wood; In Sheet-Iron; In Stone; In Mountains; In Stars AENGUS WOODS 225 Legere and ß?ß???????: The Library as Idea and Space ANNA-SOPHIE SPRINGER 233 Lessons from Fungi TOBY KIERS 241 They Carry Us With Them: The Great Tree Migration CHELSEA STEINAUER-SCUDDER 245 AFTER TREES Afterword: Another World is Possible KATIE HOLTEN 253 Bibliograph 259 Sources 279 Contributors 287 Acknowledgments 299 Colophon 304.