the life of trees
If all goes as planned, my next book will be called The Gospel of the Trees. A kind of first installment of this project — a fairly lengthy review-essay for Books & Culture — may be found here. Happy reading!
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Alan: I doubt you’ve read it, and I can’t really recommend it as a book, but you probably would enjoy Larry Niven’s book, The Integral Trees, just for its central conceit (it’s a work of sci-fi, set in a society that lives in a glass cloud orbiting a neutron star, and rather than live on a planet they live on these . . . really enormous trees). Anyway, check it out.
— Noah Millman · Jun 30, 03:56 AM · #
cows prefer tree leaves to almost any other food, but just can’t reach many of them
That really is sad. Now whenever I see cows standing anywhere near trees I’m going to think of them staring longingly at the leaves like a child eyeing the cookie jar up on top of the refrigerator.
— Michael Straight · Jun 30, 06:24 PM · #
And you know what else is funny? Giraffes are gaga for tubers.
— Noah Millman · Jun 30, 06:32 PM · #
Thanks for the Niven recommendation, Noah — I don’t know that book but will be interested to read it. But you’re wrong about giraffes: don’t you understand that they developed long necks in order to be able to dig deep into the ground for tubers? Learned that in my biology book. By some guy named Lamarck, I think.
— Alan Jacobs · Jun 30, 08:52 PM · #