Tree

Harvard FAS

Have you hugged a tree lately? How about grown one? Photographed one? Drawn one? Written about one? Imagine a semester devoted to connecting two organisms: a person (you) and a tree (not you). Interacting with a single tree, you will explore its individual history, evolutionary history, life cycle, leaves, bark, roots, flowers, cones, and architecture. In an age of environmental destruction and outright murder of our biological brethren, there is something deeply troubling about humanity’s…