The Wood and the Trees

Trees are the often unnoticed, ubiquitous backdrop to our lives, sustaining life and providing shade and resources for millennia.

Sophie Cunningham (This Devastating Fever, City of Trees) is a non-fiction writer and novelist with a passion for trees, walking and broader environmental issues. She also posts a tree everyday on her Instagram account @sophtreeofday. In Where the Trees Were and Understory: A Life with Trees, Inga Simpson reflects on trees as living beings and wood as a culturally and socially significant resource.

Consider these quiet, majestic beings in this conversation with Sophia and Inga with host Ashley Hay.