Take to the Trees: A Story of Hope, Science, and Self-Discovery in America's Imperiled Forests

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Marguerite Holloway

Take to the Trees

A Story of Hope, Science, and Self-Discovery in America's Imperiled Forests

Marguerite Holloway

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English

WW Norton & Co
31 July 2025

Memoirs; Forests, rainforests; Conservation of the environment; Trees, wildflowers & plants

Journalist Marguerite Holloway arrives at the Women's Tree Climbing Workshop as a climbing novice, but with a passion for trees and a deep concern about their future. Run by twin sister tree doctors Bear LeVangie and Melissa LeVangie Ingersoll, the workshop helps people-from everyday tree lovers to women arborists working in a largely male industry-develop impressive technical skills and ascend into the canopy. As Holloway tackles unfamiliar equipment and dizzying heights, she learns about the science of trees and tells the stories of charismatic species, including hemlock, aspen, Atlantic white cedar, oak, and beech. She spotlights experts who are chronicling the great dying that is underway in forests around the world as trees face simultaneous and accelerating threats from drought, heat, floods, disease, and other disruptions.

As she climbs, Holloway also comes to understand the profound significance of trees in her relationship with her late mother and brother. The book's rousing final chapter offers something new: a grander environmental and arboreal optimism, in which the story of trees and their resilience meshes with that of people working to steward the forests of the future, and of community found among fellow tree climbers. A lyrical work of memoir and reportage, Take to the Trees sounds the alarm about rapid arboreal decline while also offering hope about how we might care for our forests and ourselves.

By: Marguerite Holloway
Imprint: WW Norton & Co
Country of Publication: United States [Currently unable to ship to USA: see Shipping Info]
Dimensions: Height: 218mm, Width: 147mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 445g
ISBN: 9781324036449
ISBN 10: 1324036443
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 31 July 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Marguerite Holloway is is a professor at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism and has written for the New York Times and the New Yorker, among other publications. She is the author of The Measure of Manhattan, and she lives in New York.

Reviews for Take to the Trees: A Story of Hope, Science, and Self-Discovery in America's Imperiled Forests

""In her powerful and affecting book, Marguerite Holloway makes a case for how caretaking trees is really caretaking ourselves, and each other."" -- Florence Williams, author of The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative ""The book in part is a sad tale of the damage we have done, but when Marguerite Holloway herself takes to the trees and learns from those who work with them, she plants the seeds of reconciliation between people and the non-human world. Readers should take the title literally and do likewise."" -- William Bryant Logan, author of Sprout Lands ""Powerful and moving, Take to the Trees will resonate with anyone looking for ways to live with optimism and courage through our current era. Just as Holloway literally climbs into trees and finds herself, so too does the book explore the connections between trees and the branches of our lives—from the visible canopy to the substantive roots."" -- Alexandra Horowitz, author of Inside of a Dog and The Year of the Puppy