“Readings for Now” Seminar #7: What Would a Bird Be without a Tree, a Tree without a Bird? & the Involuntary Whispering of the Trees

Texts for discussion (click to view):

Diane Toomey, “Exploring How and Why Trees ‘Talk’ to Each Other,” Yale Environment 360, School of the Environment (An Interview with
Suzanne Simard), September 1, 2016
https://e360.yale.edu/features/exploring_how_and_why_trees_talk_to_each_other

Suzanne Simard, “How Trees Talk to Each Other,” TED Talk, YouTube, July 22, 2016,
https://www.ted.com/talks/suzanne_simard_how_trees_talk_to_each_other?language=en

Sir James George Frazer, “Departmental Kings of Nature,” The New Golden Bough, 70-87

Gaston Bachelard, “Intimate Immensity,” The Poetics of Space, 183-210

Gaston Bachelard, “Metaphors of Hardness and Solidity,” Earth and Reveries of Will, 48-55

Rachel Carson, “And No Birds Sing,” Silent Spring, 103-127

Ferris Jaber, “The Social Life of Forests,” New York Times Magazine, December 2, 2020,
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/12/02/magazine/tree-communication-mycorrhiza.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytmag

Rob Davis and Tony Schick, “What Happened When a Public Institute Became a De Facto Lobbying Arm of the Timber Industry,”
ProPublica, August 4, 2020
https://www.propublica.org/article/what-happened-when-a-public-institute-became-a-de-facto-lobbying-arm-of-the-timber-industry