Nature's Cathedral
Trees are a special gift, scientifically indispensable and spiritually profound September 2010
Ideally a book will start with a hook that catches readers’ attention. Two of the most arresting opening pages in literature are Karen Blixen’s description of the view looking toward Mount Kilimanjaro from her farm in the Ngong Hills outside Nairobi in Out of Africa and Aldo Leopold’s tale of the environmental history of Wisconsin set against the background of two sawyers slowly working their way through a large oak tree in A Sand County Almanac…