In the past few weeks, I’ve been turning to music as a way to think about how culture shapes our relationship to the natural world – or perhaps, rather, how nature shapes our culture.  After attending a concert of a string quartet, I started thinking about the connection between wood and music, and, by extension,…

After attending a concert of the Kronos Quartet in NYC with my husband, I started thinking about the wood that was vibrating and delivering such delicious sounds to my ears. Music, it seemed, was yet another gift we owed to the trees. Not being a musician myself, I needed to turn to someone with greater…