Trees communicate. They migrate. They protect. They heal. This year for Arbor Day this year we climbed into the NPR archives to find our favorite arboreal fiction, nonfiction and kids' books. Scroll ...

Whose woods these are I think I know. ~ Robert Frost Source: Sun shines through forest. Used by permission from Dorcon Films. Trees talk, know family ties and care for their young? Is this too ...

Trees talk to each other and to us. They collaborate among themselves. They have hopes for human society. Tree people and human people resemble one another. We are kin, having branched off in ...

Trees are able to use chemicals and fungus in their roots to communicate with each other, at least according to Peter Wohlleben in his new book “The Hidden Life of Trees.” ...

New book explores the ground-breaking research into how trees communicate underground Suzanne Simard is a Professor of Forest Ecology at the University of B.C., and joins us to talk about her memoir, ...

“Trees have long been trying to reach us,” says Richard Powers in his stunning novel The Overstory, winner of this year’s Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. The lives of his characters are intersected by ...

Above all else in the plant kingdom, trees make good trellises for our self-regarding thoughts. Robert Frost knew this when he wrote “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood.” A woodland is the right spot ...