Cannonball Read 18

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Everything is connected

The Secret Network of Nature: The Delicate Balance of All Living Things by Peter Wohlleben

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CBR16 BINGO: And Also, a repeat of the Earth Day square BINGO: Détente, And Also, Scandal, Tech, Rings Wolves in Yellowstone National Park support the beaver population. Salmon help trees grow. Ravens and wolves form an alliance against bears. Peter Wohlleben’s The Secret Network of Nature is filled with fascinating stories about the interconnectivity and delicate balance of our environment. Wohlleben is a German forestry expert who has written several bestsellers, including The Hidden Life of Trees and The Inner Life of Animals. Given my […]

“There are more life forms in a handful of forest soil than there are people on the planet.”

The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben

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It was back when I read Lab Girl by Hope Jahren* that I discovered trees and plants were much more interesting than I had ever thought. So, when I was looking for audiobooks to listen to and saw The Hidden Life of Trees (2016) by Peter Wohlleben, I was primed to learn more about them. I did find this book interesting, and I definitely learned some things. However, I sometimes found it difficult to always pay attention in the car. It was surprisingly easy for my mind to drift […]

Trees move slowly. Sometimes books about trees do, also.

The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate by Peter Wohlleben

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Peter Wohlleben is a man to be admired. Having graduated from a forestry school in Germany, he worked for the forestry commission for more than 20 years but eventually became disillusioned by the common use of what he considered to be damaging forestry practices. He began applying his own ideas as manager of an ecologically-friendly beech forest, and he shares his knowledge and passion in the multiple books he’s written about trees. The Hidden Life of Trees, a New York Times bestseller, aims to make trees […]

How green is your valley?

The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben

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Wohlleben is the manager of a forest trust in Germany, and over his years in the forest he has learned a thing or two about what makes trees tick.  The Hidden Life of Trees shares a number of his insights and they are mind-blowing: did you know that trees ‘speak’ to each other through their root systems?  That they can keep the stumps of relatives who have been chopped down alive for decades?  That slow growth for most tree species is a feature, not a […]



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