Arborescence: Robert Moor

Sounds of SAND · Aug 13, 2026 · 57m

Robert Moor is a journalist and essayist whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, The Atlantic, Emergence, and The New York Times. His first book, On Trails, won the National Outdoor Book Award and the William Saroyan International Prize. He lives in Halfmoon Bay, British Columbia. His new book is 'In Trees'.

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00:00 Welcome, and the new SAND course

00:04 A tree is a verb, not a noun

00:06 Branching, brains, and why AI has no roots

00:13 Pruning, gnarling, and the beauty of wounds

00:16 The Bodhi tree at Bodh Gaya

00:19 From On Trails to In Trees

00:22 Tree thinking and the…