It was two o’clock in the morning. Having just arrived in England mid-afternoon of the preceding day, I was severely jet-lagged and just drifting off to sleep in a farm-field facing room of the Berkshire countryside hotel that would be my lodging for the first half of my stay in the UK. Suddenly, out of […]
Ever since the remarkable success of the English translation of Peter Wohlleben’s “The Hidden Life of Trees,” it seems that English language publishers have been very busily working their way through his previous writings in search of any others that might meet with similar success in the U.S., Canada, and Great Britain. Not to in any way diminsih Herr Wohlleben’s work – I happen to be quite impressed by the way he has brought his fresh, “deeper than deep” ecological ideas into the mainstream reading public.
Most of the authors whose books I report upon and review are not what anyone would call “controversial.” Oh perhaps within certain academic circles they may have disagreements with colleagues, but as far as the general reading public are concerned, they are models of intellectual sobriety. Of course, there are a few who are a bit more unconventional.
“I am the Lorax. I speak for the trees. I speak for the trees for the trees have no tongues.” Thus said the Lorax, making his own introduction to the rapacious Once-ler in the classic 1971 book named for its title character by Theodor Seuss Geisel – Dr. Seuss. It’s a book I suspect most […]