Tree Story - Non-Fiction gift a Barbican Membership

gift a Barbican Membership

Each dish is grounded in memory and tradition

Writer and theatre critic Lyn Gardner on theatre

Rachel Cohen

Tree Story - Non-Fiction gift a Barbican MembershipTrees are not just living things, but feeling beings, like us. Better keep a watchful eye over them Ezo spruce, hinoki, cherry blossoms. Persimmon, maple, cypress. The trees of Japan cast a spell on those who visit its landscape. But as a child, writer Aya Koda realized they were more than objects of beauty. Gifted a sapling by her father, she learned that we depend on trees as much as they do on us and spent a lifetime trying to understand them.