The Secret Wisdom of Nature

March 5, 2019 By John E. Riutta in Newly Noted Books Tags: billinghurst, book, Ecology, greystone, nature, News, secret, wisdom, wohlleben

Peter Wohlleben’s The Hidden Life of Trees was a book that made a very deep and lasting impression upon the way I view forests. His The Inner Life of Animals gave me additional reasons to suspect that many of the ideas I’ve long held about animal cognition are indeed correct.

Now, with the publication of the Jane Billinghurst’s English translation of Herr Wohlleben’s The Secret Wisdom of Nature, the third book in his The Mysteries of Nature trilogy, I am filled with anticipation of what I may discover in its pages.

John E. Riutta

Founder and publisher of The Well-read Naturalist. Inveterate autodidact. Has repeatedly been found out standing in many fields. Plays well with otters.

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