Like a Tree

How Trees, Women, and Tree People Can Save the Planet

By: Jean Shinoda Bolen MD

If you've ever admired a tree for its simple beauty, appreciated its cool shade, or loved climbing up its large trunk and branches, you are part of a deeply rooted tribe that Jean Shinoda Bolen calls "tree people." In Like a Tree, this bestselling author and Jungian analyst invites us to explore our sacred relationship to these magnificent plants, and uncover the hidden wisdom they have to offer.

Drawing on her own walking practice among the giant redwoods, and as an advocate for a Fifth World Conference on Women at the United Nations, Bolen invites us to reflect on a variety of topics including: the role of trees as archetypal and sacred symbols, what it means to be a "tree person" in this time in history, and how this might have to do with the next evolutionary step for humanity.

Sprinkled with wisdom drawn from the Tao, Buddha's teachings, Jung, and Hildegard von Bingen's life, Like a Tree is a mystical and poetic book that inspires us to deepen our unique relationship to trees and take action in our own natural ways.

Unabridged audiobook read by the author.

This book is full of good data and emotional intel

What an inspiring book to all of us, men and women to better understand the value of nature, and therefore trees. Well done!

Eye Opening!

Are you a Tree Hugger? This book will awaken you in so many ways. You'll find yourself smiling, wanting to cry, getting really angry, and finding yourself full of happiness. This book speaks to the Soul!

Trees are miracles!

I love this book so much! It was filled with the fax I had no idea of him and gave me a much deeper insight into what trees really are and what they provide us.

Print version recommended.

The content of this book is worthy, timely, precious. But it needed a professional narrator, so much. Whether that "should" have mattered or not, it did.