Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction / Ross Gay -- Tree alphabet / Katie Holten -- Tree typeface (a rewilding tool) / Katie Holten -- Seeds, soil, saplings -- Ojibwe new year / Winona Laduke -- He who plants a tree plants hope / Lucy Larcom -- Michael Hamburger / Tacita Dean -- I am the seed of the free / Sojourner Truth -- Palas por pistolas / Pedro Reyes -- Acorn bread recipe / Lucy O'Hagan -- Buds, bark, branches -- Oak gall ink recipe / Rachael Hawkwind -- Branches, leaves, roots and trunks / Robert Macfarlane -- Tree theory, biogeography and branching / Brian J. Enquist -- Cultivating the courage to sin / Andrea Bowers -- Wrong trees / Zadie Smith -- Fractal vision / James Gleick -- Leaves & trunks -- It's the season I often mistake / Ada Limón -- from Why information grows / César A. Hidalgo -- Tree university / Futurefarmers -- from Funes, the memorious / Jorge Luis Borges -- Under a plane tree / Plato -- Fake plastic trees / Radiohead -- Trees breathe out, we breathe in / Luchita Hurtado -- Elm stand / Thomas Princen -- Exact opposite of distance / Irene Kopelman -- Innocence of trees / Agnes Martin -- Medicine of the tree people / Valerie Segrest -- Blad2/leaf 2 / Äse eg Jørgensen -- Flowers & fruits -- from Sketch of the analytical engine / Ada Lovelace -- An droighneán donn / Susan McKeown -- Tree with the apple tattoo / Nicola Twilley -- Millenniums of intervention / Amy Harmon -- Cacao: the world tree and her planetary mission / Jonathon Miller Weisberger -- Tree of life / Roz Naylor -- Forests -- Two trees make a forest / Jessica J. Lee -- Word for world is forest / Ursula K. Le Guin -- from How forests think / Eduardo Kohn -- from Forests / Gaia Vince -- Bewilderness / E.J. McAdams -- from Islands on dry land / Elizabeth Kolbert -- Ghost forest / Forrest Gander and Katie Holten -- Family trees -- Being / Tanya Winder -- Brutes: meditations on the myth of the voiceless / Amitav Ghosh -- Tropic cascade / Camille T. Dungy -- Catalpa tree / Aimee Nezhukumatathil -- Notes for a salmon creek farm revival / Fritz Haeg -- We are the ark / Mary Reynolds -- Among trees / Carl Phillips -- Mother trees / Suzanne Simard -- Tree time -- Tree clocks and climate change / Nicole Davi -- from Alphabet / Inger Christensen -- Horse chestnut / Charles Gaines -- Future library / Katie Paterson -- Liberty trees / Robert Sullivan -- January 23, 2015 / Andrea Zittel -- A matter of time / Amy Franceschini -- All the time in the world / Rachel Sussman -- Tree people -- Mujer Waorani/Waorani women / Nemo Andy Guiquita -- Tress x office / Natalie Jeremijenko -- This is not out world with trees in it / Richard Powers -- I want to be a tree / Sumana Roy -- What's happening? / [extinction symbol] -- Declaration of interbeing / Kinari Webb -- Why are there no trees in paleolithic cave drawings? / William Corwin and Colin Renfrew -- Speaking of nature / Robin Wall Kimmerer -- "Joy is such a human madness": the duff between us / Ross Gay -- Of trees in pain; in teeth; in wood; in sheet-iron; in stone; in mountains; in stars / Aengus Woods -- Legere and βιβλιοθήκη: the library as idea and space / Anna-Sophie Springer -- Lessons from fungi / Toby Kiers -- They carry us with them: the great tree migration / Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder -- After trees -- Afterword: another world is possible / Katie Holten.