In Trees

Robert Moor’s brilliant In Trees is –– like its subject –– powerfully, fascinatingly arborescent: it branches and roots, gnarls and delves. Moving from sky to earth, Robert Moor unfurls in fine-grained prose the ancient, urgent story of how trees transform us. Reading it, I felt my senses of time, life and process shift in ways I hadn’t experienced before. It left me arboresced.” – Robert Macfarlane * author of Is a River Alive? *Widely branched and deeply rooted, In Trees is a deeply thoughtful exploration of how we unrooted humans value- and devalue- our arboreal relations. With adventurous journeys, lively storytelling and provocative reflection, Moor invites us along to know charismatic forests through the eyes of other worldviews, encouraging our own Green Revelation to guide us through these urgent times.” – Robin Wall Kimmerer * author of Braiding Sweetgrass *Robert Moor is one of the few I’d trust to bring a fresh perspective to trees and he does not disappoint. By turns earthy and philosophical, what a captivating and exhilarating book! – Tristan Gooley * author of How to Read a Tree *In In Trees, Robert Moor leads us on a luminous journey into the living forests who gather and sustain us. With deep compassion, empathy and clarity, he reveals a captivating world of intricate connection and intelligence that reshapes how we see trees - and roots our place among them. Wise, profound, and quietly transformative; this is a book I will press into the hands of loved ones – Sophie Pavelle * author of To Have Or To Hold: Nature’s Hidden Relationships *Robert Moor is a rare and luminous talent, and In Trees is his best work to date…To read this book is to feel oneself anchored more firmly to the earth and, simultaneously, to become more open to life‘s many branching, wild possibilities. – Ferris Jabr * author of Becoming Earth *Those who loved On Trails are rewarded for their patience with this new book, another in that rare category of ‘classic upon publication.’ I’ve lived out my life in places with far more trees than people, and this volume helps me understand why. – Bill McKibben * author of The End of Nature *In Trees is dazzlingly erudite, playful, profound, adventurous and, above all, eloquently, fiercely alive. Full of brilliant, mind-bending insights and wonderful surprises, this is the most life-affirming book I’ve read in a long time – John Vaillant * author of Fire Weather *A profound and loving, shrewd and funny pilgrimage, in which trees are living things but also verbs and ways of life. Moor finds so much beauty, and so much historical rubbish to clear away, in this bold, wild search to understand how he should live. – Larissa MacFarquhar * author of Strangers Drowning *Brilliantly written, supremely intelligent, and philosophically provocative. * Kirkus *Moor’s nature writing is beautiful and refreshingly original. The result is a moving testament to the power of trees. * Publishers Weekly *

Robert Moor is an award-winning writer and New York Times bestselling author. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Guardian, Harper’s, The Atlantic, and Granta, among others.

Moor’s first book, On Trails, won the National Outdoor Book Award, the William Saroyan Prize, and the Pacific Northwest Book Award. It was named one of Waterstones’ Best Travel Writing of 2016, The Telegraph’s Best Travel Books of 2016, and The Guardian Bookshop’s Best Nature Writing of 2016.

He lives in British Columbia.