The Hidden Life of Trees (Hardcover)

from elenchus

Wohlleben's collection is eminently readable: an essay typically runs six octavo pages; focuses on a central concept with multiple and specific (often personal) examples; and deploys a conversational style without (at least for me) patronising. While the result is a collection of interrelated pie...

from PDCRead

Copses and wood seem static places, only changing as the seasons ebb and flow. The forests of Europe and the UK have inspired writers, built towns and fleets and provide food warmth and shelter for millennia. But all is not as it seems in this wooded world, as Wohlleben details in his book with t...

from auntmarge64

One thing's for sure: I'll never look at trees and forests in the same way again. The variety of means trees use to communicate with one another and the lengths they go to nourish each other is stunning, and while there will be doubts about whether this is done in any deliberate sense, the same t...

from bangerlm

Anthropomorphizing trees -- yes please! I have always been a bit disdainful of the scientific proposition of not anthropomorphizing other living things. I feel that it leads to a real lack of empathy and is used to justify awful behaviors that have negative consequences for our ecology. I felt th...

from Shande

Gorgeous photos! A very well made book, nice and large. I love it!