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Trees embody life. They show us the seasons in a city landscape, and they provide
us with wood, food and shelter. Their silence demands our respect.
Pollution and the climate can present threats to trees, however their resilience
and self-healing and growing capabilities make them survive and even triumph
over these challenges, thus becoming social and political witnesses of our history
and future through their resistance and longevity. In this book are trees,
challenged by their climate and soil conditions, old survivors like the four-thousand-
year-old Yew trees in Kingsley Vale, transformed trees, having changed shape or
colour due to outside influences. Strong winds along the British coast are moulding
the tree's branches like lopsided hairstyles. Trees are reclaiming their habitat by
taking over old greenhouses on a derelict farm. Finally it is about trees participating
in life and their given habitat, shaping their landscape and being shaped by it.
Poetic and thought provoking, in The Whisper of a Million Leaves trees are
portrayed with dignity, thus aiming to stimulate greater respect and regard for
trees and the environment.
"What shines through this book is the incredible tenacity of the tree." Quote from
Jon Snow, writer of the foreword in the book.
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