Robert Moor
Robert Moor is a journalist, essayist, and author. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s, and The Atlantic, among other publications. On Trails is his debut book and has won the William Saroyan International Prize, the National Outdoor Book Award, and the Pacific Northwest Book Award. He lives in Halfmoon Bay, British Columbia.
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“Robert Moor’s In Trees is an exquisite and deeply erudite meditation on trees, but more importantly on humanity’s relationship with the natural world. Moor offers a sophisticated and moving analysis that asks his audience to think carefully and expansively about what we might learn from these quiet, ancient, surrounding forms of life that grow slowly, endure catastrophe, and exist in complicated and profound interdependence. Drawing on an astonishing breadth of research across science, history, and philosophy, Moor writes with the sensibility of a poet and the relentless curiosity of a philosopher. This is an extraordinary, beautiful, and ultimately hopeful book about the persistence of life in ‘a world of wounds.’”—2026 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction (Katherine Ashenburg, Debra Thompson, Joshua Whitehead)Works Recognized by WT