The Tree
€œFor years I have carried this book...with me on travels to reread, ponder, envy. In prose of classic gravity, precision, and delicacy, Fowles addresses matters of final importance.€Â
€"Los Angeles Times Book Review
€œThe Tree is the fullest and finest exploration I€ve ever read of how the useless delights to be discovered in nature can ripen into the practice of art.€Â
€"Lewis Hyde, author of The Gift
 €œThe most original argument for wilderness preservation I have encountered.€Â
€"Washington Post
Finally back in print, here is the 30th anniversary edition of The Tree€"the renowned English novelist John Fowles€s (The Magus, The French Lieutenant€s Woman) moving meditation on the connection between the natural world and human creativity. An inspiring modern ecological classic, The Tree is both a powerful argument against taming the wild and a major author€s inspiring and beautifully written defense of €œthe joys of getting lost,€ and of spontaneity in life and art.