The Language of Trees: A Rewilding of Literature and Landscape By Katie Holten, Tin House Books. 320 pp. $26.96. Communicators. Migrants. Soothsayers. Beings more deserving of the rights of personhood ...

Language trees are useful for depicting relationships of communities in the past 5,000 to 10,000 years or so, a period too short to be resolved by genetics–and exactly the time for which ...

In the 5½ years since the conflict began, many playwrights have weighed in on the Iraq war from military, political and ideological perspectives, but relatively few have focused on the home front.

When it comes to working out the relationships between ancient languages, grammar is more enlightening than vocabulary, scientists say. There are some 300 language families in the world today.

Many people look at trees to relax, taking in the soothing fractal patterns to adjust their eyes from too many hours spent at a computer. Dominick "Dom" Ciruzzi, assistant professor of geology at ...

It has been a little over 30 years since tree body language became a guiding concept for me in my work, assessing tree health and structure. It was the 1994 publication of "The Body Language of Trees, ...

The more we learn about science and nature, the more interesting it becomes. While no other species has quite the same communication ability as humans, other species do communicate. Dogs use their ...

In what is certainly the first such experiment in the country, and perhaps the world, the eminent linguist Ganesh Devy plans to set up a Global Language Park ( bhasha van in Hindi) in Pune. It will be ...