Tree Sense

Ways of Thinking About Trees

Susette Goldsmith, Elizabeth Smither, Philip Simpson , Anne Noble

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Massey University Press
10 June 2021

Biodiversity; Deforestation; Global warming; Urban & municipal planning; Trees, wildflowers & plants

At a moment when the planet is so clearly in peril, the trees stand as both guardians and messengers. They have words for us — if only we would listen. As climate change imposes significant challenges on the natural world we are being encouraged to plant trees. At the same time, urban intensification and expansion threatens our existing arboreal resources and leads to disputes among communities, councils and developers over the fate of mature trees. To find our way through this confusion, we need to build our respect for trees and to recognise their essential role in our environment, our heritage, our well-being and our future. We need to build a robust ‘tree sense’. This collection of essays, art and poetry by artists, activists, ecologists and advocates, including Philip Simpson, Anne Noble, Elizabeth Smither, Kennedy Warne and Glyn Church, discusses the many ways in which humans need trees, and how our future is laced into their roots and their branches.

By: Susette Goldsmith
Contributions by: Elizabeth Smither, Philip Simpson, Anne Noble, Kennedy Warne
Imprint: Massey University Press
Country of Publication: New Zealand
Dimensions: Height: 230mm, Width: 163mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 430g
ISBN: 9780995140745
ISBN 10: 099514074X
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 10 June 2021
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

7 / Introduction Susette Goldsmith ——— Part One Needful Dependency 17 / Tree breath and human Elizabeth Smither 21 / A Walk in the Bush Philip Simpson 45 / A Line Between Two Trees/ Observations from the Critical Zone Anne Noble 55 / Among Trees, Among Kin Kennedy Warne 71 / The Golden Bearing Meredith Robertshawe 85 / The Peculiar Trees of Aotearoa Glyn Church 105 / Tree Sense of Place Jacky Bowring TreeSense_TEXT_FNL.indd 4 2/02/21 12:29 PM——— Part Two Greening the Anthropocene 125 / Burying the Axe and the Fire-stick Susette Goldsmith 143 / Think Like a Mataī Colin D. Meurk 169 / E Tata Tope e Roa Whakatipu Huhana Smith 191 / Our Lost Trees Mels Barton 207 / No Place for a Tree? Susette Goldsmith 224 / Indigenous plant list 227 / Glossary 231 / Notes 244 / Further reading 246 / About the contributors 252 / About the illustrations 255 / Acknowledgements

Dr Susette Goldsmith is of Ngāti Māhanga and Pākehā descent. She is an independent writer and editor of non-fiction, and Adjunct Research Fellow at the Stout Research Centre for New Zealand Studies, Victoria University of Wellington Te Herenga Waka. She has edited numerous museum, art gallery and scholarly books, essays and monographs, has published several natural and social histories, and has contributed articles and regular columns for diverse publications. Her scholarly research explores ways of perceiving, interpreting and safeguarding natural heritage in Aotearoa.

Reviews for Tree Sense: Ways of Thinking About Trees

Jim Eagles reviews Tree Sense: Ways of thinking about trees, edited by Susette Goldsmith, for Kete. ‘In her introduction to this book of essays on trees, editor Susette Goldsmith recounts the sort of incident which probably occurs in every neighbourhood in the land and illustrates very well the conflicting views that people have about trees.'