The Word for World is Forest

by Ursula K. Le Guin

1972 189 pages eng ★ 4.4 (9 ratings)

Centuries in the future, Terrans have established a logging colony & military base named “New Tahiti” on a tree-covered planet whose small, green-furred, big-eyed inhabitants have a culture centered on lucid dreaming. Terran greed spirals around native innocence & wisdom, overturning the ancient soc…