Arboreal Humanities Bibliography
Matthew Battles, Tree
Burke, Sue. Semiosis (2018).
Capon, Botany for Gardeners
Chestnutt, Charles. “Po’ Sandy” (1888).
Michael Christie, Greenwood.
Rich Doyle, Darwin's Pharmacy
John Evelyn. Sylva (1664)
Gaines, Charles. Palm Trees and Other Works (2019).
Annette Giesecke, The Mythology of Plants
Geniusz, Mary Siisip, Ed. Wendy Makoons Geniusz. Plants Have So Much to Give Us, All We
Have to Do Is Ask: Anishinaabe Botanical Teachings (2015).
Matthew Hall, Plants as Persons
Harrison, Robert Pogue. Forests: The Shadow of Civilization (1992).
Kimmerer, Robin. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings
of Plants (2013).
Kohn, Eduardo. How Forests Think (2013).
Kopenawa, David. The Falling Sky (2013).
Leguin, Ursula K. “Vaster than Empires And More Slow”(1971); The Word for World is Forest
(1972)
Leonard, Zoe. Ed. Bennett Simpson, Survey (2018).
Qing Li's Forest Bathing: How Trees Can Help You Find Health and Happiness
Lockerby, Earle. “Ancient Mi’kmaq Customs: A Shaman’s Revelations” (2004).
Logan, William Bryant. Sprout Lands, Tending the Endless Gift of Trees (2019).
Robert MacFarlane, Underlands
Agustin Fernandez Mallo, Nocilla Dream
Michael Marder. Grafts. (2016), Plant Thinking (2013).
Morrison, Toni. Beloved (1987).
Muir, John. “A Wind Storm in the Forests” (1894).
Jeffrey Nealon, Plant Theory
Ostrovsky, Alexander. The Forest (1870).
Ovid, Metamorphoses. Translated Allen Mandelbaum.
Pollan, Michael. Botany of Desire (2001).
Powers, Richard. The Overstory (2018).
Proulx, Annie. Barkskins (2016).
Oliver Rackham, Woodlands
Sumana Roy, How I Became a Tree
Varlam Shalamov, Kolyma Stories,
Suzanne Simard, Finding the Mother Tree (2020).
Stone, Christopher P. “Should Trees Have Standing? -- Toward Legal Rights for Natural
Objects” (1972)
Thoreau, “Wild Apples” (1862).
Wessels, Forest Forensics
TREE POEMS
Andrew Marvell, "The Garden"
William Wordsworth, "Yew Trees" https://www.bartleby.com/270/1/285.html
John Keats, "In Drear-Nighted December"
William Cullen Bryant, "The Planting of the Apple Tree"
https://www.bartleby.com/360/5/168.html
Baudelaire, "Obsession," "Correspondences"
Walt Whitman, "Song of the Redwood Tree" https://www.bartleby.com/360/5/168.html ;
"I Saw in Louisiana a Live Oak Growing"
George Meredith, "The Woods of Westermain" (1883)
Frost, Robert. ”Sound of Trees” (1916), “Birches” (1916), “Stopping By Woods on a Snowy
Evening” (1923).
William Carlos Williams, "The Botticellian Trees" (1931), "The Locust Tree in Flower" (1933),
"Tree and Sky" (1933), "Winter Trees"
Alison Lurie, "Trees, Being Neighbors" (1947)
John Ashberry, "Some Trees"
Wendell Berry, "The Apple Tree" (1962)
James Merrill, "Christmas Tree"
Howard Nemerov, "Learning the Trees" (1977)
W. S. Merwin, "The Other Tree" (1955), "Native Tress" (1988)
Richard Wilbur, "Under a Tree" (1988)
Marie Howe, "The Copper Beech" (1997)
Louise Erdrich, “I Was Sleeping Where The Black Oaks Move” (2003).
Kathleen Jamie, "Alder" (2005)
Seamus Heaney, "Planting the Alder" (2006)
Linda Pastan, "Vertical" (2010)
Harjo, Joy. “Speaking Tree” (2015).
John Kinsella, "Tree Elegy Across the Biosphere in Memory of
W.S. Merwin"
Linda Gregerson, "Deciduous"; "When Nothing But Trees" (2021)
Black Tree Poems
Billie Holiday, "Strange Fruit"
Paul Laurence Dunbar, "The Haunted Oak"
Carl Phillips, "The Cure"
Nikki Giovanni, "For Saundra"
June Jordan, "For Alice Walker (a summertime tanka)
Lucille Clifton, "surely i am able to write poems," "generations"
E. Ethelbert Miller, "I Am Black and the Trees Are Green"
Rita Dove, "Three Days of Forest, a River, Free"
Claudia Rankine, "American Light"
Michael S. Harper, "History as Apple Tree"
Claude McKay, "Joy in the Woods"
Marilyn Nelson, "My Grandfather Walks in the Woods"
Stephanie Pruitt, "Mississippi Gardens"
Gerald Barrax, Sr., "I Called Them Trees," "To Waste at Trees"
Joanne V. Gabin, "For Alexis"
James Weldon Johnson, "Deep in the Quiet Wood"
Ruth Ellen Kocher, "Sleepwalker on the Mountain"
Margaret Walker, "Sorrow Home"
Janice N. Harrington, "O Believer"
G.E. Patterson, "The Natural World"
Langston Hughes, "Lament for Dark People"
Audre Lord, "Song"
Yusef Komunyakaa, "A Greenness Taller than Gods"
Robert Hayden, "Ice Storm," "Locus"
Clarence Major, "Surfaces and Masks"
Films mentioned
James Benning, Nightfall
Something by Chris Wellsby (?)
Kurosawa, Dress Uzala
Tarkovsky, Stalker and Sacrifice (but other stuff too)
Sissako, Timbuktu
And Disney films! Snow White, The Old Mill, Into the Woods . . and more
Ciro Guerra, The Embrace of the Serpent,
James Cameron, Avatar
Charlie Brown’s Christmas
Judi Dench’s film about trees?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjnv_AevX4s
Tree Art
exhibition in London. There is an awful lot of tree art, actually.
https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/art-exhibitions/amongtrees?eventId=855751
(Featured artists — Robert Adams, Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Yto Barrada, Johanna Calle, Gillian
Carnegie, Tacita Dean, Peter Doig, Jimmie Durham, Kirsten Everberg, Simryn Gill,
Rodney Graham, Shi Guowei, Hugh Hayden, Eva Jospin, Kazuo Kadonaga, William
Kentridge, Toba Khedoori, Luisa Lambri, Myoung Ho Lee, Zoe Leonard, Robert Longo,
Sally Mann, Steve McQueen, Jean-Luc Mylayne, Mariele Neudecker, Virginia Overton,
Roxy Paine, Giuseppe Penone, Abel Rodríguez, Ugo Rondinone, George Shaw, Robert
Smithson, Jennifer Steinkamp, Thomas Struth, Rachel Sussman, Pascale Marthine
Tayou, Jeff Wall.).
Cezanne. A couple here
https://eclecticlight.co/2015/11/17/trees-in-the-landscape-6-paul-cezanne-andconstructive-strokes/
Charles Gaines
Dutch paintings of blasted trees,
FROM HUGH CRAWFORD
Partial Bibliography
Bealer, A. W. (1972). Old ways of working wood. Barre, Mass.,, Barre Publishers.
Bealer, A. W. (1976). The tools that built America. Barre, Mass.
Bennett, J. (1994). Thoreau's nature : ethics, politics, and the wild.
Bennett, J. (2001). The enchantment of modern life : attachments, crossings, and ethics.
Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press.Thousand Oaks, Calif., Sage Publications.
Bennett, J. (2010). Vibrant matter : a political ecology of things. Durham, Duke University Press.
Carlsen, S. (2008). A splintered history of wood : belt sander races, blind woodworkers, and
baseball bats. New York, NY, Collins.
Chappell, S. (1998). A timber framer's workshop : joinery, design & construction of traditional
timber frames. Brownfield, Me., Fox Maple Press.
Cronon, W. (1991). Nature's metropolis : Chicago and the Great West. New York, W. W.
Norton. Earley, L. S. (2004). Looking for longleaf : the fall and rise of an American forest.
Chapel Hill, N.C., University of North Carolina Press.
Emerson, G. B. and Massachusetts. Zoological and botanical survey. [from old catalog] (1894).
A report on the tres and shrubs growing naturally in the corests of Massachusetts. Boston,, Little,
Brown, and company.
Ennos, A. R. (2001). Trees. Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution Press in association with
the Natural History Museum, London.
Evelyn, J. (1664). Sylva, or, A discourse of forest-trees, and the propagation of timber in His
Majesties dominions. London, Printed by Jo. Martyn, and Ja. Allestry, printers to the Royal
Society, and are to be sold at their shop ...
Faulkner, W. and T. L. McHaney (1987). Go down, Moses. New York, Garland Pub.
Freinkel, S. (2007). American chestnut : the life, death, and rebirth of a perfect tree. Berkeley,
University of California Press.
Giono, J. (2005). The man who planted trees. White River Junction, Vt., Chelsea Green Pub.
Green, H. (2006). Wood : craft, culture, history. New York, Viking.
Hallé, F. (2002). In praise of plants. Portland, Timber Press.
Harrison, R. P. (1992). Forests : the shadow of civilization. Chicago, University of Chicago
Press.
Heinrich, B. (1994). A year in the Maine woods. Reading, Mass., Addison-Wesley.
Heinrich, B. (1997). The trees in my forest. New York, NY, Cliff Street Books.
Heinrich, B. (2002). Why we run : a natural history. New York, Ecco.
Logan, W. B. (2005). Oak : the frame of civilization. New York, W.W. Norton & Co.
Maeterlinck, M. and P. Mosley (2008). The intelligence of flowers. Albany, State University of
New York Press.
Maloof, J. (2005). Teaching the trees : lessons from the forest. Athens, University of Georgia
Press.
Michaux, F. A. and A. L. Hillhouse (1817). The North American sylva. Philadelphia,, Sold by T.
Dobson etc. Paris, Printed by C. d'Hautel.
Nadkarni, N. (2008). Between earth and sky : our intimate connections to trees. Berkeley,
University of California Press.
Peattie, D. C. (2007). A natural history of North American trees. Boston, Houghton Mifflin.
Pollan, M. (1997). A place of my own : the education of an amateur builder. New York, Random
House.
Ray, J. (1999). Ecology of a Cracker childhood. Minneapolis
Emeryville, CA, Milkweed Editions ;
Silverstein, S. (2005). The giving tree. New York, HarperCollinsPublishers.
Snyder, G. (2004). The practice of the wild : essays. Washington, DC, Shoemaker & Hoard.
Stone, C. D. (2010). Should trees have standing? : law, morality, and the environment. New
York, N.Y., Oxford University Press.
Sturt, G. (1993). The wheelwright's shop. Cambridge ; New York, NY, USA, Cambridge
University Press.
Thoreau, H. D. and W. J. Rossi (2002). "Wild apples" and other natural history essays. Athens,
University of Georgia Press.
Thoreau, H. D. and W. J. Rossi (2008). Walden, Civil disobedience, and other writings :
authoritative texts, journal, reviews and posthumous assessments, criticism. New York, W.W.
Norton.
Tudge, C. (2006). The tree : a natural history of what trees are, how they live, and why they
matter. New York, Crown Publishers.
Underhill, R. (1981). The woodwright's shop : a practical guide to traditional woodcraft. Chapel
Hill, University of North Carolina Press.
Wells, D. and H. Lovett (2010). Lives of the trees : an uncommon history. Chapel Hill,
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill.