Think Like a Forest by Ben Rawlence

Think Like a Forest by Ben Rawlence

‘Beautiful and thought-provoking’ Cal Flyn

How do we raise children in a climate emergency?

What should we teach them - and what kind of future are we preparing them for?

Ben Rawlence began writing to his eldest daughter before she was born, trying to understand what it means to bring a child into a world facing ecological breakdown. Over the next twelve years, these letters – written to his two daughters as they grow – chart one father’s attempt to live with the central contradiction of our age: raising children within a system that threatens all life, including our own.

By turns moving and funny, and always bracingly honest, Think Like a Forest explores love, fear and responsibility in perilous times. Rawlence finds the answers might lie in learning to see the world again through the eyes of a child so that we may embrace interdependence and regain our place in nature. To think like a forest, he shows us, may be the key to how we parent, how we live, and even whether we have a future on our planet at all.

'A gift, not just for the author’s daughters, but for all of us who want to replace ecocide anxiety with the glimmerings of a better future’ Sophy Roberts

‘A thoughtful, tender way to make a map of new and frightening territory’ Jay Griffiths

Ben Rawlence is the award-winning author of Radio Congo, City of Thorns, The Treeline and Think Like a Forest. His writing has been translated into a dozen languages. The Treeline won the 2023 Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism and the 2022 Schmidt Award for Excellence in Science Communications, among others. He is the co-founder and director of the pioneering educational institution Black Mountains College in Wales.

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ISBN 13	9781787335257
ISBN 10	1787335259
Title	Think Like a Forest
Author	Rawlence Ben
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Jonathan Cape
Year published	2026-04-16
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