BRANDEL FRANCE de BRAVO Washington, March 24, 2013 The writer is co-author of "Trees Make the Best Mobiles: Simple Ways to Raise Your Child in a Complex World".
The question is asked every few years when another living landmark tumbles down: What is the oldest tree in New York City? "The oldest tree in New York?" said Edward S. Barnard, the author of "New York City Trees: A Field Guide for the Metropolitan Area Columbia University Pressss, 2002).
If my legs could talk... inspired by a presentation by R. Bruce Allison, author of If Trees Could Talk).
By Amy Davidson Sorkin April 3, 2018 Betty Smith, the author of "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn," was a good observer of the economics of various opportunities, including those based on intellectual property.
The answer was sweet gum, and the upshot was that he became an arboreal expert, and an author of city-tree books, including one, still in the works, about Central Park.
Adrian Benepe, the parks commissioner, has already found that out; so has Benjamin Swett, the photographer and author of "The Great Trees of New York," whom Ms. Jones has enlisted in identifying the five boroughs' most extraordinary trees, with age, height and beauty as major criteria.
Artist, author, and passionate advocate of trees and birds, Carr drew inspiration and focus from decaying aboriginal artifacts that littered the wilderness of her beloved British Columbia.
Writing in the Guardian last month, the scholar Murray Armstrong, author of The Liberty Tree: The Stirring Story of Thomas Muir and Scotland's First Fight for Democracy, said: "The final four years of Burns's life coincided with the dramatic rise and fall of a movement for parliamentary reform that directly involved the common people of Scotland in politics for the first time.
It makes it much more expensive," says James Tooley, an expert on education in developing countries, and author of The Beautiful Tree, which explores how the world's poorest people are educating themselves.
Besides, even the author of The Giving Tree said there are no happy endings.
