{"product_id":"the-tree-isbn-9780061997778","title":"The Tree","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe classic meditation on creativity and the natural world\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“For years I have carried this book. . . with me on travels to reread, ponder, envy. In prose of classic gravity, precision, and delicacy, Fowles addresses matters of final importance.” —W. S. Merwin, \u003cem\u003eLos Angeles Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“\u003cem\u003eThe Tree \u003c\/em\u003eis 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 \u003cem\u003eThe Gift\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFirst published a generation ago, \u003cem\u003eThe Tree\u003c\/em\u003e is renowned English novelist John Fowles's provocative meditation on the connection between the natural world and human creativity, and a powerful argument against taming the wild. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn it, Fowles recounts his own childhood in England and describes how he rebelled against his Edwardian father’s obsession with the “quantifiable yield” of well-pruned fruit trees and came to prize instead the messy, purposeless beauty of nature left to its wildest.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Tree\u003c\/em\u003e is an inspiring, even life-changing book, one that reaffirms our connection to nature and reminds us of the pleasure of getting lost, the merits of having no plan, and the wisdom of following one’s nose wherever it may lead—in life as much as in art.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis special 30th anniversary edition includes an introduction by Barry Lopez.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e“For a casual walk in the forest, or an overnight bivouac in the depths of a favorite armchair, I’d recommend John Fowles’s beautiful essay “The Tree.” Just released in a 30th-anniversary edition, “The Tree” is a hard-to-summarize meditation on art, nature, individualism and mortality--sort of a cross between Thoreau’s “Walden” and John Berger’s “Ways of Seeing,” with a dash of “The Gift,” Lewis Hyde’s cult-classic manifesto on creativity thrown in for good measure.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times, Paper Cuts\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Beautiful. . . . A cross between Thoreau’s “Walden” and John Berger’s “Ways of Seeing,” with a dash of “The Gift,” Lewis Hyde’s cult-classic manifesto on creativity. - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times, Paper Cuts\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Tree\u003c\/i\u003e is a powerful, absorbing and beautifully written meditation on the connection between man and nature. . . . Encompassing Linnaean classification, the wood in popular art and literature, and humanity’s flight from the country to the city, Fowles ranges widely. As a result, \u003ci\u003eThe Tree\u003c\/i\u003e offers a magnificent and perfectly poised argument for a form of conservation that is even more pertinent now than when it was first published.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Tree\u003c\/i\u003e 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.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[A] beautifully honed plea for us to “be” in the natural world, to seek human creativity through the wild. . . . Beyond the tree and beyond the woods, Fowles challenges us to embrace the unpredictable, the untamable, the unquantifiable.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWomen's Voices for Change\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[S]ays more about our relationship with nature than any other author I’ve ever read. Republished in honour of its 30th anniversary, this book will open your eyes to the world around you and hopefully have you looking at the next tree or forest you pass in an entirely new light. Or, even better, to not pass it, but sit down and spend some time with it.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBlogcritics.org\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“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.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBrad Kessler, author of GOAT SONG\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Tree\u003c\/i\u003e is part memoir, part explanation and part warning, one of the most beautiful, succinct and prescient pieces of writing we have.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[B]elongs alongside the finest wilderness-rambling narratives.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker \"Book Bench\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A revelation.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review \"Daily\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A gentle plea for wilderness [and] an argument for art and the imagination.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune, Editor's Choice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[A] great book. . . . [T]he perfect little thing to roll up in your pocket and take with you for a lunch in the park. It’s like having a laid-back, wide-ranging conversation with one of the greatest novelists of the 20th century.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Stranger\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“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.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAtlantic Monthly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The most original argument for wilderness preservation I have encountered.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[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.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eChristian Science Monitor\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“For years I have carried this book...with me on travels to reread, ponder, envy. In prose of classic gravity, precision, and delicacy, Fowles addresses matters of final importance... His theme is the relation and the opposition between human notions of control and codification-as exemplified by his father’s neatly pruned fruit trees and the nomenclature of Linnaeus on the one hand-and manifestations of the singular, the surprising, the wild, the imagination... on the other.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“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.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLewis Hyde, author of THE GIFT\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“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.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLydia Millet, author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist LOVE IN INFANT MONKEYS\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ecco","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44887981981925,"sku":"NP9780061997778","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780061997778.jpg?v=1730227877","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-tree-isbn-9780061997778","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}