Trees communicate. They migrate. They protect. They heal. This year for Arbor Day this year we climbed into the NPR archives to find our favorite arboreal fiction, nonfiction and kids' books. Scroll ...

Whose woods these are I think I know. ~ Robert Frost Source: Sun shines through forest. Used by permission from Dorcon Films. Trees talk, know family ties and care for their young? Is this too ...

A walk with author Peter Wohlleben through the forest he manages in Hummel, Germany, would be a pleasant and enlightening experience, judging by his book. “The Hidden Life of Trees” (Greystone Books, ...

Trees talk to each other and to us. They collaborate among themselves. They have hopes for human society. Tree people and human people resemble one another. We are kin, having branched off in ...

Of the many tender and heart-wrenching moments in “Big Tree,” Brian Selznick’s illustrated novel about two tree seeds, it’s a small illustration toward the beginning of the book that may be the most ...

“Trees have long been trying to reach us,” says Richard Powers in his stunning novel The Overstory, winner of this year’s Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. The lives of his characters are intersected by ...

Renowned forest ecologist Suzanne Simard’s research into the ways trees communicate has inspired everything from “Avatar” to “The Overstory.” Now she has a memoir of her own sharing her journey from ...