What trees can teach us about life (w/ Robert Moor)

What can we learn from trees? Robert Moor thinks that the path to a well-lived life lies in trying our best to live like a tree. Branch out, prune what doesn’t work, and make use of the spots where we’ve been injured or broken. Robert talks to Chris about his decade-long project to write a book about the wisdom of trees, which took him from a thousand year old bonsai in Tokyo to a tree-climbing teacher in England and living in the canopy of an old growth forest in Canada to try and prevent its logging. This is an adventurous, far-ranging episode about what it means to be a human and why the answer to that question might just lie in the top branches of the nearest tree.

Featured guest

• Follow Robert Moor on Instagram (instagram.com/robertmoor_), X (x.com/robertmoor_), Bluesky (bsky.app/profile/robertmoor.com) and at robertmoor.com
• Buy In Trees: An Exploration (amazon.com/Trees-Exploration-Robert-Moor/dp/14…)

Connect with the team

• Follow Chris on Instagram (instagram.com/chrisiduffy/?hl=en) and at chrisduffycomedy.com
• Buy Chris’ book, Humor Me (t.ted.com/ZGuYfcL)
• Watch How to Be a Better Human videos on YouTube at youtube.com/@TEDPods
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