About this Event
Join us on Tuesday, April 14 at 7pm when we welcome award-winning author Robert Moor for the release of his latest book, In Trees: An Exploration, at the San Francisco Botanical Garden. Presented by Green Apple Books and the Gardens of Golden Gate Park.
When: Doors at 6:30pm, Start at 7:00pm
Where: San Francisco County Fair Building, 1199 9th Ave. San Francisco, CA 94122
About the Event
In Trees—the perfect companion to Moor's first book, On Trails—takes readers into their own backyard and across the globe to explore how we gain wisdom from and are evolutionarily intertwined with trees.
Join us for an author talk followed by audience Q&A and book signing. Books available for purchase with your RSVP, or available at the event.
If you purchase a ticket that includes a copy of In Trees, your book will be available for pick up at event check in.
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About In Trees
From the acclaimed author of the New York Times bestseller On Trails comes a wondrous new journey through the wilds of nature and the gnarls of history, exploring how trees—from the mightiest sequoia to the tiniest bonsai—can teach us to grow wise.
To truly grasp the wisdom of a tree, you need to begin thinking like one…
One day, on a whim, Robert Moor set out to climb a tree near his home—unwittingly embarking on what would become a decade-long, globe-spanning adventure of intellectual and spiritual transformation. Pursuing the hidden wisdom of trees, he scales to the very top of a giant sequoia while filming a nature documentary with David Attenborough; he treks through swamps in Papua to reach a treehouse-dwelling tribe of hunter-gatherers; and he journeys to a remote research camp in Tanzania, where he spends a memorable night sleeping in a chimpanzee nest, seeking to understand our deep evolutionary history. Eventually, having gained a radical new outlook on both our gnarled past and our ever-branching future, he joins an intrepid clan of climate activists risking everything to halt construction of a new oil pipeline and save an ancient forest.
Along the way, Moor learns the art of “tree-thinking,” which, he discovers, has the power to break open some of humanity’s oldest questions: What is the secret to truly growing old? How do we set down deeper roots in an increasingly chaotic world? Most importantly, how should we—as individuals, as communities, as stewards of the earth—live?
A witty and relentlessly curious excursion through philosophy, history, and science, what begins as an ode to the miracle of trees blossoms into a joyous, daring, fiercely hopeful endeavor to arborize humanity.
About Robert Moor
Hailed by The Wall Street Journal as a “philosopher on foot,” Robert Moor is the bestselling author of On Trails and In Trees. Translated into more than a dozen languages, On Trails garnered the National Outdoor Book Award, the Pacific Northwest Book Award, and the William Saroyan International Prize. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Harper’s, New York magazine, Outside, Emergence, and n+1, among other publications. He lives in Halfmoon Bay, British Columbia.
Notes
- Robert Moor's books will be available for purchase at this event.
- This is an in-person event and will not be livestreamed.
- We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
San Francisco County Fair Building, 1199 9th Avenue, San Francisco, United States
USD 0.00 to USD 33.00
