The Spirit of the Woods: Poet and Painter Rebecca Hey’s Gorgeous 19th-Century Illustrations for the World’s First Encyclopedia of Trees

The Spirit of the Woods: Poet and Painter Rebecca Hey's Gorgeous 19th-Century Illustrations for the World's First Encyclopedia of Trees

"The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing which stands in the way... As a man is, so he sees," William Blake wrote in his most beautiful letter a quarter millennium before scientists began to see the molecular poetry of what trees feel and how they communicate.

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