How I Became A Tree - By Sumana Roy (hardcover)

How I Became a Tree is an exquisite, lovingly crafted meditation on plants, trees, and our place in the natural world.

In this captivating book, Sumana Roy explores the lessons that writers, painters, photographers, scientists, and spiritual figures have gleaned through their engagement with trees - from Rabindranath Tagore to Tomas Tranströmer, Ovid to Octavio Paz, William Shakespeare to Margaret Atwood.

Through her stunning meditations on forests, plant life, time, self, and the exhaustion of being human, Roy evokes the spacious, relaxed rhythms of the trees themselves.

This book is a must-read for anyone who has ever felt tired of speed and longing to live in tree time.

With its tender attentiveness to the non-human world, How I Became a Tree offers insights into more compassionate and resilient modes of existence than those devised by the perennially agitated makers of history.