How to read a tree : clues and patterns from bark to leaves: learn to navigate by branches, locate water with a leaf, and unlock other secrets in trees
Trees are keen to tell us so much: about themselves, the land, the water, the people, the animals, the weather, and time. To understand their story, you have to know how to read it. Gooley helps readers uncover the clues hiding in a tree's branches and leaves; its bark, buds, and flowers-even in its stump. No two trees are exactly alike, and each difference reveals the story of how this tree lived-if we stop to look closely.