“Readings for Now” Seminar #8: Why a Forest Should Never Be a Laboratory (With a special note to Colleges of Forestry: Please stop trying to turn forests into laboratories)

Texts for discussion (click to view):

Rachel Carson, “The Obligation to Endure,” Silent Spring, 5-13

Rachel Carson, "Indiscriminately from the Skies," Silent Spring, 154 -172

Jill Lepore, “The Right Way to Remember Rachel Carson,” The New Yorker, March 26, 2018

Sir James Frazer, Chapters 9, 10, 15, 28, The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion,
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/3623/3623-h/3623-h.htm
Chapter 9. The Worship of Trees
1. Tree-spirits
2. Beneficent Powers of Tree-Spirits
Chapter 10. Relics of Tree Worship in Modern Europe
Chapter 15. The Worship of the Oak
Chapter 28. The Killing of the Tree-Spirit
1. The Whitsuntide Mummers
2. Burying the Carnival
3. Carrying out Death
4. Bringing in Summer
5. Battle of Summer and Winter
6. Death and Resurrection of Kostrubonko
7. Death and Revival of Vegetation
8. Analogous Rites in India
9. The Magic Spring

Richard Powers, “Patricia Westerford,” The Overstory, 112-144

Peter Wohlleben, selections from The Hidden Life of Trees: Foreword by Tim Flannery, vii-ix; Introduction to the English Edition, x-xii;
Introduction, xiii-xv; “Friendships,” 1-5; “The Language of Trees,” 6-13