· No place could prosper without its inhabitants knowing how to cut their trees so they would sprout again,” writes Logan. A working arborist and a frequent contributor to The New York Times, Logan draws on exhaustive reading, observation, and discussions with practitioners whom he encounters in areas where coppice is still part of the landscape. Logan rambles from the East Coast . · When Logan (Air: The Restless Shaper of the World, , etc.) was hired to train and care for 92 trees in front of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, he became obsessed with sprouting—the ability of any leafy tree or shrub to grow new branches after its trunk is cut or burned—and with the ancient practices of coppice and pollard that nurtured this regenerative power. Brand: Norton, W. W. Company, Inc. "William Bryant Logan’s enthusiasm is contagious, his knowledge jaw-dropping. He has poured heart and soul into this beautiful book, his writing poetic but also practical, hopeful, brilliant. Logan is the Bernd Heinrich of trees. His work is heroic. When [Sprout Lands] ends I am an unremitting, fiendish tree nerd. I had no idea I would fall this hard."/5(54).
The author discusses his latest book, "Sprout Lands: Tending the Endless Gift of Trees," a rediscovery of the lost traditions of tree pruning that sustained human life and culture for thousands of years. Logan is a certified arborist and the author of the acclaimed books: "Dirt: The Ecstatic Skin of the Earth," "Oak: The Frame of Civilization," and [ ]. William Bryant Logan. Sprout Lands. Tending the Endless Gift of Trees. Order Today. Air. The Restless Shaper of the World. Order Today. Oak. The Frame of Civilization. Sprout Lands: Tending the Endless Gift of Trees Review by Michelle Sutton, NYSUFC Editor "Coppice and pollard we should know these words again, for by means of them, people built their world out of wood for ten thousand years." —William Bryant Logan Every spring, I coppice my trio of purple smokebushes (Cotinus coggygria 'Royal Purple') because I value the deep purple foliage.
TENDING THE ENDLESS GIFT OF TREES. An arborist celebrates the intrinsic creativity of trees. When Logan (Air: The Restless Shaper of the World, , etc.) was hired to train and care for 92 trees in front of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, he became obsessed with sprouting—the ability of any leafy tree or shrub to grow new branches after its trunk is cut or burned—and with the ancient practices of coppice and pollard that nurtured this regenerative power. When Logan (Air: The Restless Shaper of the World, , etc.) was hired to train and care for 92 trees in front of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, he became obsessed with sprouting—the ability of any leafy tree or shrub to grow new branches after its trunk is cut or burned—and with the ancient practices of coppice and pollard that nurtured this regenerative power. Resprouting allows a tree to stay alive after damage or disease. William Bryant Logan. Sprout Lands. Tending the Endless Gift of Trees. Order Today. Air. The Restless Shaper of the World. Order Today. Oak. The Frame of Civilization.
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