Beth Moon

Opened at Random: Ancient Trees: Portraits in Time

This morning we opened Ancient Trees: Portraits in Time at random and found this:

Viewing Trees as a Verb

In ‘What Makes a Tree a Tree?’ Rachel Ehrenberg reaches beyond science to a more metaphysical definition.

We Go Inside a 1500 Year Old Tree (Judi Dench and Jo Shapcott)

We can think of no better way to start our day than to spend three minutes inside a 1500 year old tree (with a poem).

Ancient Trees: Portraits in Time, Change, Survival

“Ancient Trees: Portraits in Time” is one of the most beautiful and instantly transformative books we’ve seen in a long time. Photographer Beth Moon spent fourteen years traveling the world photographing ancient trees She describes her images as “Portraits of Change. Portraits of Survival. Portraits of Time” and interleaves them with the occasional perfect poem. It is a book we will leave open, to keep in our field of vision as we go about our day.