Books about forests?

[Anonymous No.16118333]

Old-growth forests, deep woods, sacred groves, which books feature immersions into such environments?

[Anonymous No.16118349]

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[Anonymous No.16118357]

How Forests Think

[Anonymous No.16118367]

>>16118333
I also love forests. Here are some recommendations. Daphnis and Chloe (to some extent), Knut Hamsun's "Pan", Knut Hamsun's "Growth of the soil" (to some extent), About forests in western literature in general: "Forests" by Robert Harrison, Baker "The Peregrine", Ernst Jünger "Auf den Marmorklippen" (to some extent), Hölderlin "Hyperion" (to some extent), Works of Wordsworth.

[Anonymous No.16118595]

>>16118367
based and sylvanpilled

[Anonymous No.16118852]

>>16118333
Along similar veins, any good books on Druids? No cringe pop-neopaganism if possible.

[Anonymous No.16118861]

>>16118333

Not a novel but a poem you may like, “The Lost Bower” by Elizabeth Barret Browning is an incredibly immersive experience of what you’re describing.

[Anonymous No.16118888]

>>16118349
The obvious choice, hah!
>>16118367
Will certainly see these out
>>16118852
This would be very well appreciated, my motivation for seeking out forest books arose partly from my recent study of the celts. Caesar describes Druids in one of his works, I believe.

[Anonymous No.16118896]

>>16118333
Richard Powers - The Overstory

[Anonymous No.16119733]

>>16118333
Literally “The Trees” by Conrad Richter is exactly that. The sequels (The Fields and The Town) are good too.
But the whole book is about carving out a life in the Old Growth forest in the Ohio Valley

[Anonymous No.16119759]

>>16118349
Walden is new growth forest; i don’t think you read it
> “[The Massachusetts forest] has lost its wild, damp, and shaggy look; the countless fallen and decaying trees are gone, and consequently that thick coat of moss which lived on them is gone too. The earth is comparatively bare and smooth and dry.”

[Anonymous No.16119805]

Mythago Wood-Robert Holdstock

[Anonymous No.16119818]

>>16118333
It Shall Not Be Stormed by von Salomon

[Anonymous No.16119829]

>>16118333
A bit off-topic but why can't I find these kinds of forest in North America? I can only find them in Europe.

[Anonymous No.16119854]

>>16119829
Haha there’s a list on Wikipedia, there’s a couple parks with at least a few acres of old-growth in every state

[Anonymous No.16119863]

>>16119829
They exist they're just not prevalent. You'll find most of them in the West.

[Anonymous No.16120090]

>>16119829
The trees I have posted as the OP image are Giant Sequoias in Mariposa Grove of Yosemite. I have also seen Sequoia in Sequoia national park which is nearby. Putting aside the obvious tourist problem, focusing on the nature itself, the majesty of the sunbeams piercing the forest onto bright green meadowgrasses and horsetails, reflecting off the spongy, rusty, delicate bark of the giant trees...it is quite the experience.
>>16119829
Many medieval recipes involve tree nuts, as before the industrial revolution, vast old-growth forests covered Europe, and many peasants relied and coexisted with them for nourishment. Here in Puerto Rico, less than 1% of the forests are virgin. I feel the pain of walking around forests solely comprised of invasive trees of meager diameter, mainly coffee shade trees which conquered the area after the agricultural economy vanished.

[Anonymous No.16120245]

>>16118367
Daphnis and Chloe? They are about sheppards and even pirates more than about forrests.

[Anonymous No.16120249]

>>16120090
what trees are native to puerto rico?

[Anonymous No.16120297]

>>16120249
Perhaps the more interesting native ones, though not endemic, ones:
>Ceiba (massive roots)
>Guayacan (valuable, extremely dense wood, dry forest)
>Guanabana (soursop fruit)
>Quenepas (best fruit in my opinion)
>wide Gallery of mangrove species
Endemic ones I know of:
>Matabuey (orange inedible fruits, beautiful leaves and stems)
Plenty of attractive hardwoods, especially those bushes in the El Yunque dwarf forest. There is plenty info and documentation online about said trees, if you visit:
https://www.fs.usda.gov/detailfull/iitf/research/?cid=fseprd592464&width=full
In Puerto Rico, there are several state forests. The Dry Forest of Guanica in the South and Guajataca forest in the North are places of great beauty. Furthermore, he majority of the trails there are open now (since the hurricane damaged many state forests). I unfortunately have not visited El Yunque much, though, I hear many trails are closed since the hurricane. Perhaps they are open now... The way mist sits atop tropical rain/moistforests is spectacular.

[Anonymous No.16120332]

>>16120245
Yes, but they have this little cave surrounded by trees, and it's overall just a very pastoral kind of feeling. Very chill, very natural. And they talk ab bit about trees, they sometimes sit under a tree.

You're right in saying that the book is not about trees, because it isn't; not at all actually. Still, forests and trees are featured in a very chill way.

[Anonymous No.16120347]

>>16118896
seconded

[Anonymous No.16120499]

>>16118333
John Muir