The Oak Papers

<p><i>'Some five years ago I sought solace from the ways of the world by stepping into the embrace of an ancient oak tree . . . From the first meeting there grew a strange sense of attachment I did not consciously recognise until I later began to realise the significance that trees and oak trees especially can have in our lives.'</i><br><br>James Canton spent two years sitting with and studying the Honywood Oak. A colossus of a tree it would have been a sapling when Magna Carta was signed. Initially visiting the tree for escape and solitude in time he learns to study it more closely. He examines how our long-standing dependency on oak trees has developed and morphed into myth and legend.<br><br><i>The Oak Papers</i> is a stunning meditative and healing book about the lessons we can learn from the natural world if only we slow down enough to listen.</p>