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Thomas Pakenham

Thomas Pakenham is a historian and the author of five books about trees, most recently The Company of Trees: A Year in a Lifetime’s Quest. (December 2016)

What the Trees Say

What the Trees Say

“If you look up at those mossy, fern-encrusted branches, you may well find redstarts and robins and wood warblers searching for insects, while woodpeckers and little owls build their nests in hollows in the trunk.”

The Long, Long Life of Trees

by Fiona Stafford

The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate—Discoveries from a Secret World

by Peter Wohlleben, translated from the German by Jane Billinghurst

December 8, 2016 issue

Letter

Javier Peñalosa

The Bastard Sycamore

January 19, 2017 issue

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