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Sprout Lands : Tending the Endless Gift of Trees by Logan, William Bryant is a science book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Sprout Lands : Tending the Endless Gift of Trees about?

Arborist William Bryant Logan recovers the lost tradition that sustained human life and culture for ten millennia. Once, farmers knew how to make a living hedge and fed their flocks on tree-branch hay. Rural people knew how to prune hazel to foster abundance: both of edible nuts, and of straight, strong, flexible rods for bridges, walls, and baskets. Townspeople cut their beeches to make charcoal to fuel ironworks. Shipwrights shaped oaks to make hulls. No place could prosper without its inhabitants knowing how to cut their trees so they would sprout again. Pruning the trees didn’t destroy them. Rather, it created the healthiest, most sustainable and most diverse woodlands that we have ever known. In this journey from the English fens to Spain, Japan, and California, William Bryant Logan rediscovers what was once an everyday ecology. He offers us both practical knowledge about how to live with trees to mutual benefit and hope that humans may again learn what the persistence and generosity of trees can teach.

Who reads Sprout Lands : Tending the Endless Gift of Trees?

Author

Logan, William Bryant

Publisher

W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9780393609424

Category

science

Subjects

Science, Stem

Rating

4.6 / 5 (77 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14