David Suzuki & Wayne Grady’s Tree, A Life Story stages a quiet but insistent argument: to know a tree is to know a world. At once elegy, primer, and manifesto, the book reframes arboreal biography as a mode of ethical attention. Suzuki’s scientific gravitas and Grady’s narrative tact combine to make a book that is neither pure … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s book Review – Tree: A Life Story by David Suzuki & Wayne Grady
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Tree Collectors: Tales of Arboreal Obsession by Amy Stewart
Amy Stewart’s The Tree Collectors – Tales of Arboreal Obsession is a masterful fusion of natural history, biography, and cultural critique, offering a multifaceted portrait of humanity’s enduring fixation with trees. Rather than a linear narrative, Stewart assembles a compendium of “tales”—ranging from Renaissance botanists who risked everything to sketch exotic saplings, to modern-day activists … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Tree Collectors: Tales of Arboreal Obsession by Amy Stewart
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – If Trees Could Talk: Life Lessons from the Wisdom of the Woods by Holly Worton
Holly Worton’s If Trees Could Talk artfully weaves poetic reflection, personal narrative, and ecological insight into a tapestry that encourages readers to listen more attentively to the natural world. At once intimate and expansive, Worton’s prose invites us to regard trees not merely as silent sentinels of our landscape but as teachers bearing vital lessons about resilience, … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – If Trees Could Talk: Life Lessons from the Wisdom of the Woods by Holly Worton
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Finding the Mother Tree by Suzanne Simard
In Finding the Mother Tree, ecologist Suzanne Simard invites readers into the hidden, exquisite communication network of forests, weaving together rigorous science, personal memoir, and a call to 're-conceive' humanity’s relationship with the natural world. The result is neither dry technical treatise nor sentimental nature writing, but a compelling hybrid that marries empirical inquiry with a … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Finding the Mother Tree by Suzanne Simard
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review: Our Green Heart – The Soul and Science of Forests by Diana Beresford-Kroeger
In Our Green Heart - The Soul and Science of Forests, Diana Beresford-Kroeger masterfully intertwines the poetic reverence of a naturalist with the analytical rigour of a scientist. The result is a work that not only illuminates the ecological intricacies of forests but also ignites a profound moral and spiritual call to action. This book is … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review: Our Green Heart – The Soul and Science of Forests by Diana Beresford-Kroeger
Mindset Monday Book Reviews – Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer
In Braiding Sweetgrass, Robin Wall Kimmerer crafts a profound literary and intellectual exploration that weaves together indigenous wisdom, ecological science, and personal narrative with a grace that mirrors the very nature she reveres. Kimmerer, a botanist and member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, offers readers a unique confluence of scientific knowledge and indigenous ways of knowing, … Continue reading Mindset Monday Book Reviews – Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Mindset Monday Book Reviews – Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Robin Wall Kimmerer’s Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses is not merely a book about bryophytes, but a profound meditation on the intricate relationship between nature and humanity. Combining her dual identity as both a scientist and a member of the Potawatomi Nation, Kimmerer weaves together biology, indigenous wisdom, and personal narrative in a … Continue reading Mindset Monday Book Reviews – Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses by Robin Wall Kimmerer
The New Renaissance Mindset 