Plant a Tree, Grow a Story: The Wood Wide Web of Literature

An open book on grass with a leaf as a bookmark

Listen to this article: Even before we discovered that trees communicate through underground fungal and root networks (the so-called ‘wood wide web’), authors were writing about trees not merely as an aesthetic choice, but as the centre of many canonical narratives. They offer shelter, provide comfort, and even become conduits for magic – think of […]