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The Spiritual Wisdom of Trees
Recommended Reading

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Below is a list of some of the books that Beth and Leah have found helpful in their own spiritual journeys with trees. Please consider this a small sample of the many important works available. You might also consider the more exhaustive bibliography on spirituality in nature that we include on our Resources page.

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Books

  • The Arbornaut by Meg Lowman

  • The Attentive Heart by Stephanie Kaza

  • Black Faces, White Spaces by Carolyn Finney

  • Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

  • Discovering the Spiritual Wisdom of Trees by Beth Norcross and Leah Rampy

  • Earth and Soul by Leah Rampy

  • Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake

  • Ever Green by John W. Reid and Thomas E. Lovejoy

  • Finding the Mother Tree by Suzanne Simard

  • Forest Forensics by Tom Wessels

  • The Forest Unseen and The Songs of Trees by David Haskell

  • The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein

  • The Great Conversation by Belden Lane

  • The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben

  • How to Read a Tree by Tristan Gooley

  • The Lorax by Dr. Seuss

  • Mini-Forest Revolution by Hannah Lewis

  • National Audubon Society Field Guide to Trees: Eastern and Western Regions by National Audubon Society

  • The Nature of Oaks and Nature's Best Hope by Douglas Tallamy

  • Old Growth: The Best Writing About Trees From Orion Magazine by Orion Magazine

  • Overstory by Richard Powers

  • The Power of Trees by Peter Wohlleben

  • Radical Joy for Hard Times by Trebbe Johnson

  • Rooted by Lyanda Lynn Haupt

  • The Treeline by Ben Rawlence

  • Trees by Hermann Hesse

  • When the Trees Say Nothing by Thomas Merton

 

If you buy any of these books, please consider buying through your local bookstore. 

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You might also consider periodicals such as Emergence and Orion that routinely have provocative and interesting content regarding trees. 

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