''The Tree'' is an autobiographical book by

John Fowles John Robert Fowles (; 31 March 1926 – 5 November 2005) was an English novelist of international renown, critically positioned between modernism and postmodernism. His work was influenced by Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus, among others. Af ...

. In it, Fowles discusses the essence of

nature Nature, in the broadest sense, is the physical world or universe. "Nature" can refer to the phenomena of the physical world, and also to life in general. The study of nature is a large, if not the only, part of science. Although humans ar ...

and its relation to the creative arts, especially writing, which he describes as “siblings, branches of the one tree.”

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1979 non-fiction books Books about writing Books by John Fowles English-language books {{lit-bio-book-stub