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A friend asked what the book was about and I, only having made it through the first couple of pages, said “Oh it's a family saga told from the point of view of a tree.” I couldn't have been more wrong.

This book is more than anything about time, and how things work at different speeds. The human characters in the book occupy the understory in which a majority of the book is set, but they've discovered that the world is meant to work in hundreds and thousands of years instead. It's a sobering read, but a worthwhile one.

the lighthouse is mrs. ramsay??

Beautiful nature writing- John Muir kills it with his descriptions of the wilderness, of plants, of mountains. He treats it all with a sincerity we don't see much in the everyday. However, the book's not quite a pageturner and I wouldn't quite recommend it to a friend unless they're as much of a nature nut as myself.

It's absolutely a one sided book, but its told from the side that rarely gets its full story told in our modern capital driven society