[SEMCO] An Illustrated Lecture: Thoreau and the Language of Trees

[Teresa Izzo]

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PRESS RELEASE

FOR IMMEDIATE 
RELEASE 
FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT:
March 7, 
2018 
Teresa Izzo
   508-896-3867 ext. 137
                                                                                                         tizzo at ccmnh.org

The Cape Cod Museum of Natural History presents
     Thoreau and the Language of Trees
An Illustrated Lecture
By Richard Higgins


BREWSTER, MA ­ The Cape Cod Museum of Natural 
History is proud to present   “Thoreau and the 
Language of Trees” an Illustrated Lecture by 
Richard Higgins in conjunction with his 
photography exhibit in our Naturescape Gallery on 
Saturday, April 7, 2018 at 1pm.

Trees were central to Henry David Thoreau’s 
creativity as a writer, his work as a naturalist, 
his thought, and his inner life. He admired their 
beauty, studied how they grew, took them as 
spiritual companions and wrote about them as few 
have. When he said the poet loves the pine tree 
as his own “shadow in the air,” he was speaking 
about himself. In short, he spoke their language.

This original illustrated talk explores Thoreau’s 
deep connections to trees. Using Thoreau’s words, 
photographs of historic trees and his own 
black-and-white photographs of trees today, 
Higgins looks at Thoreau’s keen perception of 
trees, the poetry he saw in them, and how they 
fed his soul. He presents trees as a central 
thread connecting all parts of Thoreau’s being­heart, mind, and spirit.


RICHARD HIGGINS is a writer and editor in 
Concord, Massachusetts, and the author of Thoreau 
and the Language of Trees, published by the 
University of California Press. A former Boston 
Globe staff writer, he is the coauthor of 
Portfolio Life. His writing has appeared in the 
New York Times, Atlantic Monthly, Christian 
Century, Esquire, and Smithsonian and many other publications.
He will be selling and signing his book at the event.

  Free with Museum Admission
    For more information please call the Museum at 508-896-3867 ext. 133.

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Teresa Izzo
Program Coordinator
Cape Cod Museum of Natural History
869 Main St./Rte. 6A
Brewster, MA 02631
508-896-3867 x137
508-896-8844 - fax 
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