The Tree

This book is a wonderful antidote to those who see nature as a system or a machine that is somehow apart from us Fowles sees the natural world instead as a community that we re inextricably bound up with Trees are companions, even friends A profound meditation The particular cost of understanding the mechanism of nature, of having so successfully itemized and pigeon holed it, lies most of all in the ordinary person s perception of it, in his or her ability to live with and care for it and not to [...]

BOSQUESFowles ama los rboles y los bosques Ese caos verde, como l mismo lo denomina El bosque, para Fowles, es el desorden, lo salvaje, la libertad, el silencio y el aprender a vivir a otro ritmo, m s pausado, atendiendo a lo que sucede, por insignificante que nos parezca Con l rescat de mi memoria mis propios bosques Si te adentras en ellos y permites que te envuelvan descubres que cada bosque es diferente, nico Las pinedas mediterr neas del sur de Menorca, perfumadas de romero y tomillo, te of [...]

Quite an intense read for a relatively short novella There were some sections that I found a bit daunting, and then I would move to a section that would sing This is about so much than trees, but at the same time, it is very essentially about trees They are Fowles door into dealing with all he wants to say about nature and man.Will return to complete

A John Fowles le gustan los rboles Mucho Much simo Lo flipa con ellos Pero no los rboles en cuanto a entes individuales, con su nombre en lat n y su clasificaci n en una familia, orden y clase.No.A John Fowles le gustan los rboles en cuanto a parte de un bosque, parte de un ecosistema en perpetua simbi sis, parte de la Naturaleza.Porque para l, un gran mal de la sociedad es la cientificaci n de la naturaleza, la necesidad de etiquetarlo todo, con la presunci n de que as lo entenderemos todo Y el [...]

Re read thoughts 5 16 2015 Came back to this book nearly four years after the initial reading, and after a long trip where I spent a lot of time with some wild trees I still found it beautiful and touching and wonderful I also found some sections that challenged me and that I didn t particularly remember from the first time around and that I didn t quite agree with as wholeheartedly as I did when I first read it but I think that is a good thing I still recommend this essay fully to anyone and ev [...]

I don t know how to explain this book It is a simple book, it is not a simple book, and it can speak for itself I have never read anything else by John Fowles, and I don t know when I will, but now I have read this My brain is fried This book, this tiny little volume, this tiny little essay, was everything I expected and , and even after that It blew my mind.I saw this book and bought it, though I have 80 something books I need to read I saw the title and grabbed it, smiled when I saw the cover [...]

An unusual book that seems to go off topic but still manages a good narrative flow This is an essay that the author feels passionate about A very curious read.

Few British writers of the 20th Century were as shimmering in their prose style as John Fowles, and this, my first attempt at Fowles nonfiction, was no exception Every apple, every fluttering leaf counts While I m a passionate lover of woods and wild places, and of a hiker than a gardener in spirit, the thesis statement of his book which I ll sum up as don t analyze it, just feeeeel it, man sounds almost quaint now, even if it does contain a fair bit of wisdom it s also an idea that pops up in [...]

This is the 30th anniversary edition of John Fowles legendary essay about trees Or rather, what trees mean in a greater sense than just the biological At first, I expected this to be similar to Rachel Carson s Silent Spring both were written decades ago However, this slim text is of a set of questions rather than answers In fact, despite the title, it could be said that trees are just the smallest portion of his purpose Do we feel that unless we create evidence photographs, journal entries, pic [...]

Regarding John and his father The fact that the two branches grow in different directions and ways does not mean that they do not share a same mechanism of need, a same set of deeper rules Naming things is always implicitly categorizing and therefore collecting them, attempting to own them and because man is a highly acquisitive creature, brainwashed by most modern societies into believing that the act of acquisition is enjoyable than the fact of having acquired, that getting beats having got, [...]

The essay is a marvelous and thought provoking meditation on man s relationship to nature Despite our attempts to frame nature through art or circumvallate it in a cloistered garden, it remains wild, chaotic, dangerous, and useless It retains an otherness that defies our abilities to impose human order upon it It is the ability of the wilderness to stand beyond our understanding, to defy our attempts at categorization, to elude our control that makes it so important The witness of the wilderness [...]

John Fowles es el reputado autor de El mago, uno de esos libros que el canon occidental nos obliga a leer antes de morir si queremos alcanzar el estatus de persona culta Sin embargo, Fowles no solo se dio a la novela, sino que tuvo tiempo de sacar ideas de debajo de las piedras y elaborar con ellas truculentos ensayos como el que recientemente ha rescatado la editorial Impedimenta En El rbol, Fowles nos relata su infancia en Inglaterra y c mo la obsesi n de su padre con la explotaci n comercial [...]

You never know quite where you are with John Fowles either he is opening one plot trapdoor after another beneath your feet The Magus , or he is messing with your willing suspension of disbelief The French Lieutenant s Woman , or he is doing something else that throws some other assumption of yours into question And this little book is no different He has written a book about nature and art that, without ever quite saying so explicitly, asserts that any review or critical assessment of his book i [...]

Filosofische, op sommige momenten sociologische, benadering van de band tussen mens en woud, mens en boom Geschreven in de jaren 70 dus op bepaalde vlakken gedateerd, en het toekomstbeeld van Fowles zit er soms ver naast het is uiteraard veel erger gesteld met de natuur en de manier waarop de mens ermee omgaat dan de auteur 30 jaar geleden voorzag.Soms kostte het wel wat inspanning om mee te gaan in de gedachtegang van Fowles, maar hoe mooi beschrijft hij zijn liefde en eerbied voor het bos, voo [...]

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Evolu ia a transformat omul ntr o creatur a c rei percep ie este izolatoare, c ci ea prive te lumea nu numai antropocentric, ci i individualizat, oglind a felului n care ne place s ne imagin m propriile noastre euri Aproape ntreaga art de dinaintea impresioni tilor sau a celui care a fost pentru ei un fel de Ioan Botez torul, William Turner proclama dragostea noastr pentru contururi clare i identit i unice, pentru lucrul individual desprins din neclaritatea fundalului Aceast putere de a deta a u [...]

It would be a violation of The Tree to do much analysis of John Fowles wonderful paean to the natural world The unpruned, unespalliered, untended, natural world Let the man speak for himself on the subject It the uncultivated copse can be known and entered only by each, and in its now not by you through me, by any you through any me only by you through yourself, or me through myself We still have this to learn the inalienable otherness of each, human and non human, which may seem the prison of e [...]

Art and nature are siblings, branches of one tree and nowhere than in the continuing inexplicability of many of their processes and above all those of creation and of effect on their respective audiences Our approach to art, as to nature, has become increasingly scientized and dreadfully serious during this last century And so on Art is just as beautiful and unpredictable as nature is, and every try to learn how to do it or to examine it is just as futile as the labels put on species Because mo [...]

I didn t ever think I d find a suitable explanation for the feeling I have about trees but I have, and it s in this magical book The artist s experience here is only a special unusually prolonged and self conscious case of the universal individual one The return to the green chaos, the deep forest and refuge of the unconscious is a nightly phenomenon, and one that psychiatrists and torturers tell us is essential to the human mind Without it, it disintegrates and goes mad If I cherish trees beyon [...]

No religion is the only religion, no church the true church and natural religion, rooted in love of nature, is no exception But in all the long cultivated and economically exploited lands of the world our woodlands are the last fragments of comparatively unadulterated nature, and so the most accessible outward correlatives and providers of the relationship, the feeling, the knowledge that we are in danger of losing the last green churches and chapels outside the walled civilization and culture w [...]

I liked The Tree a great deal, but struggle to rate it so I ll politely decline because it s really of an essay than a book there isn t really time for it to become weighty or engrossing enough to pick apart I think Fowles would take that as a compliment Nevertheless, there are a lot of memorable insights in these pages, all thoughtful and sharply written I very much connected with some of Fowles s musings, on the old cultivation vs wild battle, on the alluring mysteries of forests, and on the [...]

Este libro de lectura para cualquier estaci n del a o es uno de los pocos ensayos que el autor escribi , y mezcla elementos autobiogr ficos con un manifiesto ecol gico en defensa de la naturaleza salvaje y su experiencia como un arte M s en capitulocuarto.wordpress

A tribute to nature, especially woods and their influence on art, literature and last but not least, the author himself.

This isn t much than a short essay, but well worth the read if you are interested in the consequences of scientific thinking, and of systemization in particular Fowles argument is not against science or taxonomies per se, but that viewing life through its lens comes at a cost both to us and our planet Almost forty years after it was written, when our ability to judiciously manage all that science has empowered us to do, and when what s possible and what s ethical too rarely occupy the same conv [...]

I read The French Lieutenant s Woman in college and loved it The Tree was very stimulating in the first half of the book, but then it got very thick I tried a couple of times to pick it up again, but couldn t get with it I am disappointed, mostly in myself, because I doubted I would ever not like his writing I ll keep it and probably give it another try someday.

A really thought provoking essay A reminder that we don t need to classify everything around us Some things should be left wild so we can just enjoy them for what they are Having just finished a book on the Native American outlook on how everything is tied in a circle, I could see some of that in this essay More complex in the writing.

These question boundaries e ours, not of reality We are led to them, caged by them not only culturally and intellectually, but quite physically, by the restlessness of our eyes and their limited field and acuity of vision.

A necessary book that every human being should read at least once in life to appreciate others ways of living and our home, the planet.

Great, short read about our relationship with nature.

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