We don’t often think about the roots of trees until there is a problem. A forester friend of mine called it a “fencepost mentality.” Being underground, they are often out of sight out of mind. However ...

Ask someone to draw a tree and they will invariably draw a trunk and branches—leaving the roots out of the picture. In a unique study of tropical tree roots at the Smithsonian Tropical Research ...

There are a handful of deep symbolic "forms," as Joel Smith, the Peter C. Bunnell curator of photography at the Princeton University Art Museum, sees it. The circle, the spiral, the arrow, the grid, ...