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A Matter Of The Soul: Our Human Relationship To Trees In Nebraska, Ariana Brocious
A Matter Of The Soul: Our Human Relationship To Trees In Nebraska, Ariana Brocious
Department of English: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
We love trees. We connect with them more closely, relate to them more intimately, than almost any other plant. Nebraska, in the country’s heartland, may be known today for its fields of corn, soybeans, and cattle. But for the last 200 years, Nebraskans have also labored to fill their prairie state with trees. This obsession has touched all kinds of things: tax incentives, state slogans, farming practices, rural homeownership, urban water bills, state celebrations, land use and conservation.
A Matter of the Soul: Our Human Relationship to Trees in Nebraska is a work of narrative nonfiction that looks at how …