Lakota medicine man Black Elk referred to plants as “The Standing People,” neighbors to the two-legged, four-legged and winged members of the living community. How is a forest like a tribe, and what can we learn from the ways in which trees cooperate?

john (lower case intentional) Snodgrass is a frequent and popular speaker at UU Amherst. An instructor in Religion at Canisius University, john is also a playwright and author of many books, the most recent being Shakespeare’s Goddess