9 Organisms and Environments

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustration ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Foreword xiii
6. Introduction 1
7. Trees as Beings
8. Interstice 31
9. 1 Arboreality 35
10. 2 In the Beginning She Was a Redwood 55
11. The Language of Trees
12. Interstice 77
13. 3 Speaking Trees 79
14. 4 The Silence of Primeval Forests 103
15. Thinking (Like) Trees
16. Interstice 133
17. 5 Vegetal Imagination 137
18. Trees and Time
19. Interstice 157
20. 6 “Old Trees Hold Memory” 161
21. 7 Birth and Death in Trees 183
22. The Place and Ecology of Trees
23. Interstice 193
24. 8 The Place of Trees 195
25. 9 Organisms and Environments 213
26. Trees and Aesthetics
27. Interstice 241
28. 10 Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Tree 243
29. 11 Do Trees Sing? 291
30. Trees and Ethics
31. Interstice 303
32. 12 The Ponderosa Pines of Gold Creek 307
33. 13 Wise Trees 327
34. Legal and Political Trees
35. Interstice 369
36. 14 Philosophers with a Peculiarly Instructive Aversions toward Trees 371
37. 15 Trees as Legal Persons 389
38. Afterword 415
39. Suggestions for Further Reading 419
40. Contributors 427
41. Index 435