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I think I have finished this pencil drawing of some ancient pollarded beech trees on Leith Hill. I’m fascinated by the interconnection between trees. Is this 1 tree or 5, or more?

#drawing #trees #forest #beechtrees #pollardedbeechtrees #thelanguageoftrees #savethetrees
March 10, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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#booksky #nature #thelanguageoftrees
#katieholten #treealphabet
February 7, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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The perfect read for #InternationalDayofForests!🌲

#TheLanguageofTrees by @katieholten.bsky.social - A stunning celebration of how #trees shape our world and help rewild our lives. With contributions from over 50 incredible voices, including Ursula K. Le Guin, Robert Macfarlane and Zadie Smith. 📚
March 21, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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HUGS & big THANKS to indie booksellers for creating community, hosting & sharing a love of books. 🙏

Here are some of my favorite indie bookstores bit.ly/41RdfZk yes! you can pre-order THE LANGUAGE OF TREES (Special Edition) from all of them ☺️

#IndieBookstoreDay #NatureWriting #TheLanguageOfTrees
katieholten.bsky.social Katie Holten @katieholten.bsky.social · Apr 25
Happy #IndieBookstoreDay! I love indie bookstores almost as much as I love trees. Go buy a book and hug a tree 🥰
Photo of a white woman hugging a tree. The tree is a big old London Plane tree with mottled bark and lots of lumps and bumps, probably caused by stress. My eyes are closed. I'm wearing a black linen jacket and my forest green face mask is around my left wrist. My silver streaked hair is down on my shoulders. Behind me is the entrance to Central Park at 85th Street, in between the MET and the Guggenheim. The trees behind are bright green with spring leaves. Photo by Dillon Cohen. Tree hugging on Arbor Day. The Language of Trees is a book made with no trees - 100% recycled paper. But it's typed in Trees, a bespoke font made using a Tree Alphabet.
April 25, 2026 at 7:41 PM
katieholten.bsky.social
THE LANGUAGE OF TREES — and the World We’ve Forgotten How to Read 🌳

A conversation with the BIG SUR PODCAST about life and art, climate and action, walking and trees: www.bigsurpodcast.org/1726307/epis... 🍃

#TheLanguageOfTrees #SaveOurForests #NatureWriting
katieholten.bsky.social Katie Holten @katieholten.bsky.social · May 4
May the forest be with you 🎄

#SaveOurForests #SaveUSFS
Photo of Redwood trees in Muir Woods, Northern California. I'm looking up at the sky. Redwood trees all around me stand hundreds of meters tall, dark red trunks, bright green leaves, blue sky above. SAVE OUR FORESTS! The current US administration is attacking the US forest service and threatening national parks and forests. Trump has ordered the most devastating dismantling of the forest service in 121 years. 193 million acres are being handed to political appointees. It's disgusting, disgraceful and must be stopped. The US Forest Service was created by Theodore Roosevelt and built by Gifford Pinchot to keep professional, science-based management out of the hands of industry. For 121 years it has protected 193 million acres of public land on behalf of every American. That vision is being taken apart not through legislation, not through debate, but through executive orders and bureaucratic moves designed to gut the agency before anyone can stop it. Save the US Forest Service. Save the Redwoods.
May 5, 2026 at 10:08 AM
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🌲 Title: Homesick for Familiar Trees
🎨 Artist: Jennifer Reynolds

🔗https://irishartmart.ie/Art/homesick-for-familiar-trees/

#NatureInspiredArt #GicleePrint #ArtCollectors #ContemporaryArt #ArtThatSpeaks #ArtAndNature #MindfulArt #SacredNature #TheLanguageOfTrees #LimitedEditionArt #ArtForTheSoul
June 4, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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They built a utopia. War shattered it. Now they must survive the peace.
#SteveWiegenstein’s #DaybreakTrilogy
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#HistoricalFiction #CivilWarFiction #Booksky
August 18, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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Ross Gay Named Winner of Thoreau Prize for Literary Excellence in Nature Writing 🌿

www.thoreaualliance.org/2026/03/12/r...

#naturewriting #booksky #thelanguageoftrees
Photo of a black man sitting under a tree, he wears a blue t-shirt, red trousers and a wristwatch. His face is resting on his left hand, which rests on the back of the chair. Photo accompanies the Thoreau Alliance announcement, with these words: The Thoreau Alliance announces that Ross Gay is the winner of the 2026 Henry David Thoreau Prize for Literary Excellence in Nature Writing. On June 14, 2026, Gay will appear in Concord, Massachusetts, to accept the Thoreau Prize and deliver an address at the Trinitarian Congregational (TriCon) Church on Walden Street. Through his writing, Ross Gay reminds us to notice the small wonders of life, to approach the world with curiosity, and to find delight in the ordinary—expanding what we think of as nature writing in ways that are both tender, insightful, and exuberant.
March 12, 2026 at 8:16 PM
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I had a really lovely time chatting with Magnus Toren of the Henry Miller Library for the Big Sur Podcast. Hope you enjoy 🍃

The Language of Trees — and the World We’ve Forgotten How to Read

LISTEN HERE: www.bigsurpodcast.org/1726307/epis...

#NatureWriting #TheLanguageofTrees #BookSky #Trees
Screenshot of the Big Sur Podcast website. The banner at the top shows a photo taken at the cliff edge looking down into the Pacific Ocean, with flowers in the foreground, with waves coming up onto a secluded beach and rocks down below. Small inset photo shows the top of Redwood trees and the title of the podcast: A Big Sur Podcast. Latest episode: # 124 The Language of Trees — and the World We’ve Forgotten How to Read An ongoing conversation with people from near and far about Big Sur's past, present, and future. A Big Sur Podcast interprets “community” to mean ALL people from around the world who are curious about, and who care about, the preservation and restoration of the wild and rural character of Big Sur. Stories are told by visitors and residents, plumbers and linesmen, musicians and authors, dancers and jugglers and others. Sometimes we drift (way) off-topic into the arts, sciences, personal stories, gossip, politics, philosophy, ornithology, Henry Miller, and our zeitgeist in general. We like that! The opinions expressed here belong to the people who express them. They may or may not line up with yours, mine, or your neighbor’s — and that’s exactly the point. Different perspectives, lived experiences, and even wildly clashing views are what make conversations worth listening to: enriching, infuriating, life-affirming, and sometimes all three at once. If you are planning a visit to Big Sur and you listen to some of the folks on this Podcast talk about their love of the place your visit will probably be a lot more rewarding. Please email magnus@henrymiller.org with any comments, critique & suggestions. Host Magnus Toren This podcast is a production of the Henry Miller Memorial Library with support from The Arts Council for Monterey County! Let us know what you think! SEND US AN EMAIL! 😊 magnus@henrymiller.org
April 26, 2026 at 11:10 PM
katieholten.bsky.social
THE LANGUAGE OF TREES — AND THE WORLD WE'VE FORGOTTEN HOW TO READ 🎄

I love Redwoods, so it was a joy to speak with the Big Sur Podcast about life and art and books and trees. You can listen here: www.bigsurpodcast.org/1726307/epis... 🍃

#SaveOurForests #TheLanguageOfTrees #NatureWriting
Photo looking up at a forest canopy. I'm standing in a grove of Redwood trees in Muir Woods in Northern California. The tree beside me has a thick, velvety red-brown bark/skin which fills the lower part of the photo. Towering above, the trees reach straight up to the sky. Green leaves high above. The Big Sur Podcast is a production of the Henry Miller Memorial Library with support from The Arts Council for Monterey County. Hosted by Magnus Toren. Save our forests. Save the Redwoods. Save the US Forest Service.
May 5, 2026 at 2:53 PM
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#SteveWiegenstein’s #DaybreakTrilogy follows a #Missouri community through dreams, war, and the struggle to heal.

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August 29, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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#TheLanguageOfTrees would make a beautiful #MothersDay gift!

Printed in deep green ink and filled with prose, poetry and art, 'this astonishing tribute to the majesty of trees is framed by artist Katie Holten's visually stunning Tree Alphabet.'

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March 24, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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THE LANGUAGE OF TREES is out in paperback in the UK and Ireland on September 12th.

This edition is special, it includes writing from Kerri ní Dochartaigh with some new drawings & forests.

Pre-order bit.ly/TheLanguageofTrees
Mock-up of a new paperback book called The Language of Trees. It’s a bright forest green color with a golden forest drawing of trees and interconnected roots. The caption reads: The Irish Times Bestseller Sunset in a forest. Golden light shines through trees and their bright green leaves. A smiling white lady wearing a white t-shirt is smiling and holding a book. It has a forest green cover and a golden forest, just like the real forest behind. The book title is in large white letters: The Language of Trees
September 6, 2024 at 8:06 PM