Translated from the original German by Jane Billinghurst, whose superb skills have brought Peter Wohlleben’s other Greystone published editions into English, his forthcoming “The Heartbeat of Trees” presents a more human-centered examination of the relationship we have long had – and according to Herr Wohlleben, still have, if we take note of it – with the natural world.
It was when I took up walking in the very early mornings in order to improve my health that I came to better understand the local deer. Columbia Blacktails, Odocoileus hemionus columbianus, are abundant around our Pacific Northwest home, being particularly visible in the hours just before and after sunrise. Each day, as I set […]
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.
When I first read and subsequently reviewed Peter Wohlleben’s “The Hidden Life of Trees,” I was deeply impressed by how “Mr. Wohlleben […] connected the “prose” (the science) and the “passion” (the receptiveness of human beings to stories) for the exaltation of the idea that we – each of us as individual human beings – can understand more about trees and forests than we previously knew, or indeed perhaps even thought we could know.”