The Tree: A Classic Meditation on Nature, Art, and the Wisdom of Wild Beauty

€œFor years I have carried this book...with me on travels to reread, ponder, envy. In prose of classic gravity, precision, and delicacy, Fowles addresses matters of final importance.€

€"Los Angeles Times Book Review

 

€œThe Tree is the fullest and finest exploration I€ve ever read of how the useless delights to be discovered in nature can ripen into the practice of art.€

€"Lewis Hyde, author of The Gift

 

 €œThe most original argument for wilderness preservation I have encountered.€
€"Washington Post

 

Finally back in print, here is the 30th anniversary edition of The Tree€"the renowned English novelist John Fowles€s (The Magus, The French Lieutenant€s Woman) moving meditation on the connection between the natural world and human creativity. An inspiring modern ecological classic, The Tree is both a powerful argument against taming the wild and a major author€s  inspiring and beautifully written defense of €œthe joys of getting lost,€ and of spontaneity in life and art.