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David George Haskell, The Songs of Trees

大卫•乔治•哈思克《树之歌》

Haskell makes repeated visits to a dozen trees around the world. “The forest presses its mouth to every living creature and exhales,” he writes in the Amazonian rainforest in Ecuador, a place of unrivaled plant diversity. There he climbs to the crown of a giant ceiba tree at least 150 years old and traces its connections to plant, animal, bacterial and fungal life. He visits an olive plantation in Jerusalem, and tracks seasons of new growth after a green ash falls on the Cumberland plateau in Kentucky. On New York's Upper West Side he wires a Callery pear planted above the subway, describing how the city's sounds affect the tree's growth (“when a plant is shaken, it grows more roots”). Each acutely observed essay is resonant as a poem.(Credit: Viking)

哈思克多次前往观察分布在世界各地的十二棵树木。厄瓜多尔的植物多样性极其丰富，在这里的亚马逊热带雨林里，他写道“森林里所有的生物都散发出自己的气息”。他还在这里爬上了一棵巨型木棉树的树冠，这棵树至少有150岁树龄。他记录了这棵树与其他动植物、细菌还有真菌的联系。在耶路撒冷，他去参观当地的一家橄榄种植园。在肯塔基州的昆伯兰高原，他记录下一颗洋白蜡树种子扎根后在各个季节的生长情况。在纽约上西区，他将电线绕在一棵长在地铁上方的豆梨树上，以此记录城市的声音对豆梨生长的影响 Nick Joaquin, The Woman Who Had Two Navels and Tales of the Tropical Gothic