My thanks to Francesco for this delightful email:
Hello Tristan,
Here is Francesco from Italy. I just finished “How to Read a Tree” and I’m writing to tell you how deeply I appreciated it. I’m a city guy, but now (also inspired from your book) I’m spending my holidays on the mountains in Calabria and I look at trees in a completely new way. I also would like to share with you a really beautiful poem from the great italian poet Gabriele D’Annunzio, called “Rain in the Pine Forest”. Your book made me appreciate even more and I think that you might like it as well.
Here is a link to the poem with an english translation:
And here is a good reading in italian, so you can hear its original sound:
Thank you!
Francesco
You might also enjoy:
A Word from an Italian Arboriculturist
How to Read a Tree – The Book (Leggere gli alberi – Italian edition)
