false 2496155 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg 2496155 2 2503474 17 1 2004 Trees: Woodland and Western Civilization total:2|4:2| 2 8 3 1 34987 3.67 6 2 70822980 164645 2496155 1852852992 9781852852993 1 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2496155.Trees_Woodland_and_Western_Civilization 4.00 1 4 0 false Tue Sep 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 11 05:13:41 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 22 16:44:29 -0700 2009 more...]]> 26598445 1305858 2496155 1852852992 9781852852993 1 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2496155.Trees_Woodland_and_Western_Civilization 4.00 2 0 0 false Mon Jul 07 19:21:57 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 08 04:07:44 -0700 2008 11540225 81457 2496156 1847250513 9781847250513 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2496156.Trees_Woodlands_and_Western_Civilization 4.00 1 Trees: Woodlands and Western Civilization is an account of our relationship with them. Adam and Eve were expelled from Eden for eating from the Tree of Knowledge and the great tree Yggdrasil was central to Norse mythology. Tacitus, followed by German nationalists and historians of liberty, located freedom in the German forests. Medieval forests were both protected hunting parks and the refuge of Robin Hood. Shakespeare contrasted the simplicity of life in the Forest of Arden with the artificial manners of the court, and indeed poets from Virgil to Hardy have drawn inspiration from trees. While eighteenth-century aristocrats controlled trees in plantations around their houses, Romantics delighted in vast untamed forests, and the American Henry Thoreau withdrew into the woods to reintegrate himself with nature. Throughout history, our views of trees have been affected by the changing use of woodland and the effects of deforestation and urbanisation. How we see trees today will dictate how trees are treated in the future.]]> 4 0 false Tue Jul 01 10:22:32 -0700 2008 Thu Jan 03 10:31:58 -0800 2008 Tue Jul 01 10:22:32 -0700 2008 8 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=2496155