Tree Book Passages

Tree Book Passages
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We love books about trees!Tree Book Passages (formerly Tree Book Fan Page) is a tree book review podcast. You can purchase the titles we review at https://bookshop.org/shop/treebookfanpage. We are Doug Still (arborist and host of the This Old Tree podcast) and Georgia Silvera Seamans (lapsed arborist and host of the Your Bird Story podcast).

  1. The Lost Trees of Willow Avenue by Mike Tidwell - Tree Passages

    11/07/2025

    The Lost Trees of Willow Avenue by Mike Tidwell - Tree Passages

    Welcome, listeners, to Tree Book Passages, a podcast and shop featuring books about trees. We are Doug Still, arborist and host of This Old Tree podcast and Georgia Silvera Seamans, a lapsed arborist and host of the Your Bird Story podcast. In this episode, Doug and Georgia discuss their favorite passages from The Lost Trees of Willow Avenue by Mike Tidwell, founder of the Chesapeake Climate Action Network. We’ve heard much about the effects of anthropogenic climate change on extensive forests such as the Amazon rainforest. Tidwell’s focus on local forests, such as the street tree canopies of American cities, begins to fill a gap in the understanding of climate change impacts. If you like what you heard, you can purchase The Lost Trees of Willow Avenue on our Bookshop page. We use affiliate links. 10% of your purchase goes to support our efforts, and 10% goes to support local bookstores. Visit the book shop: https://bookshop.org/shop/treebookpassages.  Don't miss future episodes--Subscribe to Tree Book Passages wherever you get your podcasts. We are also on Youtube.

    13 min
  2. Finding the Mother Tree by Suzanne Simard - Tree Passages

    09/15/2025

    Finding the Mother Tree by Suzanne Simard - Tree Passages

    Welcome, listeners, to Tree Book Passages, a podcast and shop featuring books about trees. We are Doug Still, arborist and host of This Old Tree podcast and Georgia Silvera Seamans, a lapsed arborist and host of the Your Bird Story podcast. In this episode, Doug and Georgia discuss their favorite passages from Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest, a national bestseller, by Suzanne Simard. In a nutshell Finding the Mother Tree is about large trees that serve as hubs for vast, below-ground fungal networks of mycorrhizae. If you like what you heard, you can purchase Finding the Mother Tree on our Bookshop page. We use affiliate links. 10% of your purchase goes to support our efforts, and 10% goes to support local bookstores. Visit the book shop: https://bookshop.org/shop/treebookpassages.  Don't miss future episodes--Subscribe to Tree Book Passages wherever you get your podcasts. We are also on Youtube.

    11 min
  3. Branching Out: The Public History of Trees, Editors Leah S. Glaser and Philip Levy - Tree Book Passages

    07/19/2025

    Branching Out: The Public History of Trees, Editors Leah S. Glaser and Philip Levy - Tree Book Passages

    Welcome, listeners, to Tree Book Passages, a podcast and ⁠shop⁠ featuring books about trees. We are Doug Still, arborist and host of This Old Tree podcast and Georgia Silvera Seamans, a lapsed arborist and host of the Your Bird Story podcast. This episode of Tree Book Passages (formerly Tree Book Fan Page) is a special feature - we interview Leah Glaser and Philip Levy, the editors of the recently published Branching Out: A Public History of Trees. It is a collection of thought-provoking essays by scholars about the importance of trees as cultural resources and as objects of memory. Listen now. Leave a review. If you like what you heard, you can purchase ⁠Branching Out on our Bookshop page. We use affiliate links. 10% of your purchase goes to support our efforts, and 10% goes to support local bookstores. Visit the book shop: ⁠⁠https://bookshop.org/shop/treebookpassages⁠⁠. Don't miss future episodes--Subscribe to Tree Book Passages wherever you get your podcasts. We are also on ⁠Youtube⁠.

    1 hr
  4. North Woods by Daniel Mason - Tree Book Passage - Episode 9

    07/09/2025

    North Woods by Daniel Mason - Tree Book Passage - Episode 9

    Welcome, listeners, to the Tree Book Passages (formerly Tree Book Fan Page), a tree book podcast and shop. We are Doug Still, arborist and host of This Old Tree podcast and Georgia Silvera Seamans, a lapsed arborist and host of the Your Bird Story podcast. In this episode of Tree Book Passages (formerly Tree Book Fan Page), we share our favorite passages from North Woods by Daniel Mason. North Woods is an epic of northeastern forests from European settlement to the late 20th century. Everything that happens in this book is linked to the trees and forest around the house in which the generations of people live their lives. Listen now. Leave a review. If you like what you heard, you can purchase North Woods by Daniel Mason⁠ on our Bookshop page. We use affiliate links. 10% of your purchase goes to support our efforts, and 10% goes to support local bookstores. Visit the book shop: ⁠https://bookshop.org/shop/treebookpassages⁠. 10% of your purchase goes to support our efforts, and 10% goes to support local bookstores. Don't miss future episodes--Subscribe to Tree Book Passages wherever you get your podcasts. We are also on Youtube.

    7 min
  5. Take to the Trees by Marguerite Holloway - Tree Book Passages - Episode 8

    05/29/2025

    Take to the Trees by Marguerite Holloway - Tree Book Passages - Episode 8

    Welcome, listeners, to the Tree Book Passages (formerly Tree Book Fan Page), a tree book podcast and shop. We are Doug Still, arborist and host of This Old Tree podcast and Georgia Silvera Seamans, a lapsed arborist and host of the Your Bird Story podcast. Today's review is of Take to the Trees by Marguerite Holloway. The book takes place in the woods in western Massachusetts, at Camp Hi-Rock in Mount Washington where Holloway pursues her love of trees in the Women’s Tree Climbing Workshop. Holloway is a skilled writer—“taking us there” to the world of tree climbers  in an economical, descriptive way. If you like what you heard, you can purchase Take to the Trees by Marguerite Holloway on our Bookshop page. We use affiliate links. 10% of your purchase goes to support our efforts, and 10% goes to support local bookstores.  Don't miss future episodes--Subscribe to Tree Book Passages wherever you get your podcasts. We are also on Youtube.

    7 min
  6. Seeds by Richard Horan - Tree Book Passages - Episode 7

    05/01/2025

    Seeds by Richard Horan - Tree Book Passages - Episode 7

    Welcome, listeners, to the Tree Book Passages (formerly Tree Book Fan Page), a tree book podcast and shop. We are Doug Still, arborist and host of This Old Tree podcast and Georgia Silvera Seamans, a lapsed arborist and host of the Your Bird Story podcast. Today's review is of Seeds: One Man's Serendipitous Journey to Find the Trees That Inspired Famous American Writers from Faulkner to Kerouac, Welty to Wharton by Richard Horan. This book is a cultural history of trees. Horan seeks out and collects the seeds of trees associated with novels, historical figures, landscapes, and pop culture. Seeds is also part literary and part field guide. The book includes darling little illustrations of seeds, seedpods, cones, samaras, acorns, nut cases, buds, and leaves. Horan weaves in lessons about tree physiology and nomenclature. If you like what you heard, you can purchase Seeds by Richard Horan on our Bookshop page. We use affiliate links. 10% of your purchase goes to support our efforts, and 10% goes to support local bookstores.  Don't miss future episodes--Subscribe to Tree Book Passages wherever you get your podcasts. We are also on Youtube.

    7 min
  7. Ginkgo by Peter Crane - Tree Book Passages - Episode 6

    04/01/2025

    Ginkgo by Peter Crane - Tree Book Passages - Episode 6

    Welcome, listeners, to the Tree Book Passages (formerly Tree Book Fan Page), a tree book podcast and shop. We are Doug Still, arborist and host of This Old Tree podcast and Georgia Silvera Seamans, a lapsed arborist and host of the Your Bird Story podcast. Today's review is of Ginkgo: The Tree That Time Forgot by Peter Crane. This is a meaty book from a highly respected botanist and plant historian, Peter Crane. A Brit, he is most known for his former role as Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, and then later as Dean of the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. You’ll find definitive discussions from everything you may have wondered about regarding ginkgo trees. After its early history, you’ll find chapters on the unique biology of ginkgo, its initial world-wide range, why it declined to near extinction, its persistence and rediscovery, the cultural associations in China, Japan, and Korea, and its resurgence.  If you like what you heard, you can purchase Ginkgo by Peter Crane on our Bookshop page. We use affiliate links. 10% of your purchase goes to support our efforts, and 10% goes to support local bookstores.  Don't miss future episodes--Subscribe to Tree Book Passages wherever you get your podcasts. We are also on Youtube.

    6 min
  8. Urban Forests by Jill Jonnes - Tree Book Passages - Episode 5

    03/12/2025

    Urban Forests by Jill Jonnes - Tree Book Passages - Episode 5

    Welcome, listeners, to the Tree Book Passages (formerly Tree Book Fan Page), a tree book podcast and shop. We are Doug Still, arborist and host of This Old Tree podcast and Georgia Silvera Seamans, a lapsed arborist and host of the Your Bird Story podcast. Today's review is of Urban Forests: A Natural History of Trees and People in the American Cityscape by Jill Jonnes. Jonnes is the founder of the Baltimore Tree Trust and the author of several books. Each chapter in Urban Forests tells the story of a tree species, a type of tree (ex: memorial trees), a tree advocate, or a tree disaster (ex: Dutch elm disease). Some chapters include several of these elements. Students of the scientific and policy development of modern urban forestry will find ample information about this history. As cherry blossom season approaches, Georgia recommends reading the chapter titled "Washington Would One Day Be Famous for Its Flowering Cherry Trees" the story of Eliza Scidmore’s  determined pursuit to bring cherry trees to Washington D.C. If you like what you heard, you can purchase Urban Forests by Jill Jonnes on our Bookshop page. We use affiliate links. 10% of your purchase goes to support our efforts, and 10% goes to support local bookstores.  Don't miss future episodes--Subscribe to Tree Book Passages wherever you get your podcasts. We are also on Youtube.

    6 min
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We love books about trees!Tree Book Passages (formerly Tree Book Fan Page) is a tree book review podcast. You can purchase the titles we review at https://bookshop.org/shop/treebookfanpage. We are Doug Still (arborist and host of the This Old Tree podcast) and Georgia Silvera Seamans (lapsed arborist and host of the Your Bird Story podcast).

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