I am very glad to report Dr. Maloof has now revised and updated her 2016 book “Nature’s Temples” from Timber Press into the newly published and slightly re-titled “Nature’s Temples; A Natural History of Old Growth Forests,” published just this past April by Princeton University Press.
I have walked through some of the world’s great man-made cathedrals, and I have walked through some of the Pacific Northwest’s great old growth forests; between the two, I prefer the forests. Not due to any anti-religious sentiments, mind you, rather because just as many people I know find a connection to the universe whilst praying in magnificent temples of glass and stone, I find that connection whilst sitting quietly – my own manner of prayer, if you will – in magnificent temples of moss and trees.