Trees are amazing. The more you know about them, the more you love them. Perhaps for that reason, we become calmer when we are among them — because we instinctively know that trees represent comfort, safety, and food.

In this article, I share my review of “The Overstory”, a Pulitzer-winning book by Richard Powers that tells us multiple stories in parallel, while implicitly telling us the story of how humans have been relating to trees — and what may happen next if we don’t curb our arrogance.

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