What the Trees See: A wander through millennia of natural history in Australia
Monash University Publishing, $29.99 pb, 288 pp
Trees as witnesses
The photograph arrives while I am reading Dave Witty’s What the Trees See. A tree’s branch close-up, outer brown-red bark peeled back to smooth and brilliant green. A friend, spotting it on Quandamooka Country in Minjerribah, North Stradbroke Island, has been understandably stopped in her tracks. Framed intimately like this, its shape and textures suggest warm musculature: lean in, you will be held. This beautiful creature.
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What the Trees See: A wander through millennia of natural history in Australia
by Dave Witty
Monash University Publishing, $29.99 pb, 288 pp
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