The fall book season is shaping up to be particularly good for books with an arboreal bent. Among the notable titles is a 30th-anniversary edition of “The Tree,” by John Fowles, which the Book Review’s Jennifer Schuessler calls “a hard-to-summarize meditation on art, nature, individualism and mortality — sort of a cross between Thoreau’s ‘Walden’ and John Berger’s ‘Ways of Seeing,’ with a dash of ‘The Gift,’ Lewis Hyde’s cult-classic manifesto on creativity, thrown in for good measure.”
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