The Tree [Paperback]

“For years I have carried this book...with me on travels to reread, ponder, envy. In prose of classic gravity, precision, and delicacy, Fowles addresses matters of final importance.”

—Los Angeles Times Book Review

“The Treeis the fullest and finest exploration I’ve ever read of how the useless delights to be discovered in nature can ripen into the practice of art.”

—Lewis Hyde, author ofThe Gift

 “The most original argument for wilderness preservation I have encountered.”
—Washington Post