If trees could speak

Name: If trees could speak
Uploaded: 2020-10-10T16:41:19Z
Duration: 3 min 48 s
Description: How do we tell stories of humanity and nature at a time when our planet is burning? Novelist Elif Shafak invites us to listen to the trees, whose experience of time, stillness and impermanence is utterly different from our own. "Hidden inside [their] story is the past and the future of humanity," she says.

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• October 2020

How do we tell stories of humanity and nature at a time when our planet is burning? Novelist Elif Shafak invites us to listen to the trees, whose experience of time, stillness and impermanence is utterly different from our own. "Hidden inside [their] story is the past and the future of humanity," she says.

climate change
environment
social change
nature
storytelling
writing
trees
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