Shannan’s Reviews > The Songs of Trees: Stories from Nature's Great Connectors > Status Update

How can you not appreciate this type of language?
“The tear in the canopy caused by the tree’s fall created an inverted geyser of light.”

They reject the idea of linear progress from underdeveloped to developed, measured by the accumulation of material wealth.

I really like the word banquet in this book.

“Just as factory millworkers are deafened by machinery, given “cloth ears” by their work, wearers of the cloth itself also sometimes lose the ability to hear”