The Oak and the Long Game: What the Oldest Trees Can Teach Us
A mature English oak can live for more than a thousand years, support over 2,300 species, and produce its first significant acorn crop only at the age of forty. The great botanical illustrators of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries understood the oak as both scientific subject and cultural symbol — and the naturalists who documented it carried notebooks into the field, returning to the same trees across seasons and years, building a relationship with the landscape that was, in its own way, a form of wisdom.
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