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Ethan Tapper’s stunning literary debut is a tender and fearless reimagining of what it means to care for forests, ecosystems and each other. Ethan is a forester and author living in Bolton, Vermont.https://balinbooks.com/event/2024-11-08/ethan-tapper-and-how-love-forest
Please join us as Ethan Tapper discusses his new book that walks us through the fragile and resilient community that is a forest. He introduces us to wolf trees and spring ephemerals, and to the mysterious creatures of the rhizosphere and the necrosphere. He helps us reimagine what forests are and what it means to care for them. This world, Tapper writes, is degraded by people who do too much and by those who do nothing. As the ecosystems that sustain all life struggle, we straddle two worlds: a status quo that treats them as commodities and opposing claims that the only true expression of love for the natural world is to leave it alone.
Proffering a more complex vision, Tapper argues that the actions we must take to protect ecosystems are often counterintuitive, uncomfortable, even heartbreaking. With striking prose, he shows how bittersweet acts--like loving deer and hunting them, loving trees and felling them--can be expressions of compassion. Tapper weaves a new land ethic for the modern world, reminding us that what is simple is rarely true, and what is necessary is rarely easy.
If you can't be here but would like an autographed copy just let us know in advance - call 603-417-7981.
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375 Amherst St Somerset Plaza, Nashua, NH, United States, New Hampshire 03063
