Trees
An Anthology of Writings and Paintings
4 May 2022
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Description
*Winner of the American Translators Association Frederick Ungar Award*
An elegant collection of Hermann Hesse’s essays, poems, and passages on the subject of trees and nature, accompanied by thirty-one of his watercolor illustrations.
Hermann Hesse understood trees to be symbols of transcendence and rebirth, of instinctive growth present in all natural life. This elegant collection of his essays, poems, and passages on trees, accompanied by thirty-one of his watercolor illustrations, reveals his inspired thoughts on nature, spirituality, and self-knowledge. Together, his writings and paintings mirror the seasons and landscapes as he experienced them, and help remind us that trees’ annual rings are representations of our own days’ struggle, happiness, and purpose.
In the author’s words: “They struggle with all the force of their lives for one thing only: to fulfill themselves according to their own laws . . . Whoever has learned to listen to trees no longer wants to be one. He wants to be nothing except who he is.”
Reviews
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Superbly illustrated with 31 full-color watercolors painted by Hermann Hesse, 'Trees: An Anthology of Writings and Paintings' is extraordinary and unreservedly recommended.
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Midwest Book Review""... one of humanity’s most beautiful love letters to trees…" — MARIA POPOVA, The Marginalian
"A
testament to [Hesse’s] love affair with nature, trees in particular… [that]
will reawaken your own infatuation with the natural world and urge you to
defend it." — E: The Environmental Magazine
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