false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175695667m/546311.jpg 546311 1 Beyond their esthetic and utilitarian importance, urban trees seem to fill a deeper human need. Perhaps they are reminders of the inexorable cycles of the natural world. Perhaps they serve as eddies and rills of slowness and sureness within the frantic rush of our urban environment. <br>For more than two decades, photographer David Paul Bayles has been making images of trees in cities and suburbs--places of tension, as he puts it, between "what we build and what we grow." This beautifully designed and produced volume showcases his extraordinary vision of urban trees and their often precarious, sometimes triumphant place in the human landscape. <br>Initially drawn to his subject by "the balance and harmony and beauty between the manmade structure and the tree," Bayles has also found and photographed plenty of imbalance and human folly along the way. His images are laconic, almost deadpan, yet at the same time infused with irony, humor, and compassion. They avoid the easy trap of politicization, allowing and encouraging each of us to see the relationship between humankind and trees--in all of its complexity--for ourselves. <br>This much is certain: Those who delve into the pages of this remarkable book will never again look at the trees around them in quite the same way. 533578 2003 Urban Forest: Images of Trees in the Human Landscape (Sierra Club Books Publication) total:3|4:2|3:1| 3 11 7 0 546311 1578050960 9781578050963 3 0 3.67 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175695667m/546311.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/546311.Urban_Forest_Images_of_Trees_in_the_Human_Landscape 3 0 false Fri Oct 02 00:45:55 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 02 00:45:55 -0700 2009 546311 1578050960 9781578050963 3 0 3.67 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175695667m/546311.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/546311.Urban_Forest_Images_of_Trees_in_the_Human_Landscape 0 0 false Sat Feb 07 17:26:26 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 07 17:26:26 -0800 2009 546311 1578050960 9781578050963 3 0 3.67 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175695667m/546311.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/546311.Urban_Forest_Images_of_Trees_in_the_Human_Landscape 0 0 false Wed Nov 19 16:40:17 -0800 2008 Wed Nov 19 16:40:17 -0800 2008 546311 1578050960 9781578050963 3 0 3.67 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175695667m/546311.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/546311.Urban_Forest_Images_of_Trees_in_the_Human_Landscape 0 0 false Tue Oct 07 21:06:43 -0700 2008 Tue Oct 07 21:06:54 -0700 2008 546311 1578050960 9781578050963 3 0 3.67 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175695667m/546311.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/546311.Urban_Forest_Images_of_Trees_in_the_Human_Landscape 0 0 false Mon Sep 01 20:40:14 -0700 2008 Mon Sep 01 20:40:08 -0700 2008 Mon Sep 01 20:40:16 -0700 2008 546311 1578050960 9781578050963 3 0 3.67 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175695667m/546311.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/546311.Urban_Forest_Images_of_Trees_in_the_Human_Landscape 4 0 false Tue Jul 08 07:43:21 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 08 07:43:48 -0700 2008 546311 1578050960 9781578050963 3 0 3.67 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175695667m/546311.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/546311.Urban_Forest_Images_of_Trees_in_the_Human_Landscape 4 0 false Mon Oct 08 09:28:41 -0700 2007 Mon Oct 08 09:28:41 -0700 2007 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=546311