The overstory (translated as the Tree-world in French) 2018 novel of Richard Powers,

In this beautiful, very powerful novel, Richard Powers addresses at least three topics concerning this website:

• The shyness of the scientific world facing discoverers. He shows the ostracism of a young Canadian scientist proving, after experimentation, that trees communicate with each other and its rehabilitation, 10 years later, by the younger generation.
• The violent and unreasonable political opposition between forest industry and environmentalists in the US. Reading the novel, we have the feeling we should just organize training plans for woodcutters and of course reform the definition of the Gross National Product (cutting a forest contributes to growth, but the cost of regrowth of this forest and its side effects are not taken into account in the calculation …Al Gore explained that….a long time ago!).
• The intimate relationship between human and trees. Each of us carries one tree story within him. Thanks to the trees, Richard Powers took the opportunity to tell us about the melting pot and the questioning of the American dream. At this point, curiously, he loses universality, because his words and his trees are anything but European and European sensibility seems to be really different.