A Celebration of Our Connection With Trees

By David George Haskell

Favorite quotes: “Crack open a book. Sniff: literature is built on connections with trees, paper factories and ink pigments. We breath in the world.”

“Warm kitchen, good food and family. As with other aromatic memories, the bay leaf doesn’t just suggest these associations to me. It is them.”

From the publisher: Thirteen Ways to Smell a Tree takes you on a journey to connect with trees through the sense most aligned to our emotions and memories. Thirteen essays are included that explore the evocative scents of trees, from the smell of a book just printed as you first open its pages, to the calming scent of Linden blossom, to the ingredients of a particularly good gin & tonic.

Favorite review: “Thirteen Ways to Smell a Tree is a transportive olfactory journey through the forest that sets the sense tingling. Every chapter summons a new aroma: leaf litter and woodsmoke, pine resin and tannin, quinine and bay leaf – life in all its glorious complexity. David George Haskell is a knowledgeable, witty and erudite companion, who takes us by the hand and leads us through the world, reminding us to breathe it all in. This book is a breath of fresh air.” – Cal Flyn, author of Islands of Abandonment

Softcover

4.5 × 7 inches | 191 pages