Instructions for living a life Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it. *Mary Oliver* Spring Tea Poem To you I would serve cedar tea mixed with a touch of April distilled from shy green stems, the frosted perfume of spring rain along with a dollop of honey and ice Keewaydinoquay Peschel	Sculptor Hugh Hayden on why he uses trees from Texas in his art.
	Exhibition: "Among the Trees," Hayward Gallery, London, 2020.

Richard Powers, The Overstory : A Novel "From the roots to the crown and back to the seeds, Richard Powers’s twelfth novel unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fables that range from antebellum New York to the late twentieth-century Timber Wars of the Pacific Northwest and beyond. There is a world alongside ours—vast, slow, interconnected, resourceful, magnificently inventive, and almost invisible to us. This is the story of a handful of people who learn how to see that world and who are drawn up into its unfolding catastrophe."
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants "As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these two lenses of knowledge together to take us on “a journey that is every bit as mythic as it is scientific, as sacred as it is historical, as clever as it is wise” (Elizabeth Gilbert)."
Ross Gay, The Book of Delights: Essays "What you don't know until you carry a tomato seedling through the airport and onto a plane, is that carrying a tomato seedling through the airport and onto a plane will make people smile at you almost like you're carrying a baby. A quiet baby. I did not know this until today. . ."
Zoë Schlanger, The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth “...Schlanger reminds us of a common truth that we tend to take for granted: plants are remarkable. Behind each stage of development in their lives is a complex system, one that she describes in awe-inspiring detail. Combining research with her own personal stories, the author illuminates why plants are so vital to our ecosystem and asks pressing questions about the relationship between humans and natural life. The result is a surprising and tender book of science writing that urges us all to reconsider how we think about the greenery that lives both in our homes and outside of them.” — TIME, The 10 Best Nonfiction Books of 2024

"Hypotheses: The drive to survive is a biological universal. Intelligent behaviour is usually recognized when individual organisms including plants, in the face of fiercely competitive or adverse, real-world circumstances, change their behaviour to improve their probability of survival."

--Paco Calvo, Monica Gagliano, Gustavo M Souza, Anthony Trewavas, "Plants are intelligent, here’s how," Annals of Botany, 125: 1, 2 January 2020.

"An old-growth forest is neither an assemblage of stoic organisms tolerating one another’s presence nor a merciless battle royale: It’s a vast, ancient and intricate society."

Ferris Jabr, "The Social Life of Forests," NYT Magazine 2020