For over nine decades, lighting the enormous tree at Rockefeller Center in New York City is an event that formally kicks off the holiday season, and today is the big day. It’s the 91st anniversary of the event, and the tree this year is an 80-foot Norway Spruce from Vestal, N.Y.
Beautifully illustrated by author Katie Holten herself, The Language of Trees, which is a mix of texts, poems, song lyrics, essays, quotations and even recipes, is about trees and the natural world and their relationship to human lives