Peter Wohlleben is a German forester and author who writes on ecological themes in popular language. He is the author of the New York Times Bestseller The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate, which was translated from German into English in 2016.
The Heartbeat of Trees highlights the special bond humans share with nature and how it must be preserved.
This book marks a powerful return to the forest, where trees have heartbeats and roots are like brains that extend underground, where the colour green calms us and the forest sharpens our senses. In The Heartbeat of Trees, renowned forester Peter Wohlleben draws on new scientific discoveries to show how humans are deeply connected to the natural world. In an era of cell-phone addiction, climate change and urban life, many of us fear that we've lost our connection to nature. But Wohlleben is convinced that the age-old ties linking humans to the forest remain alive and intact. Drawing on science and cutting-edge research, The Heartbeat of Trees reveals the profound interactions humans can have with nature, exploring the language of the forest, the consciousness of plants and the eroding boundary between flora and fauna.
A perfect book to take with you into the woods, The Heartbeat of Trees will help you see, feel, smell, hear and even taste the forest. Peter Wohlleben, renowned for his ability to write about trees in an engaging way, reveals a wondrous cosmos where humans are a part of nature, and where conservation and environmental activism is not just about saving trees-it's about saving ourselves, too.
As Peter Wohlleben reminds us in
The Heartbeat of Trees, trees are the vocabulary of nature [just] as forests are the brain bank of a living planet. This was the codex of the ancient world, and it must be the fine focus of our future.Astonishment after astonishment, that is the great gift of
The Heartbeat of Trees. It is both a celebration of the wonders of trees and a howl of outrage at how recklessly we profane them.Human beings are desperate to not feel alone in the universe. We are not. We are surrounded by an ongoing conversation that we can sense, if, as Peter Wohlleben so movingly prescribes, we listen to the heartbeat of all life.Peter Wohlleben knows the battle that lies before us: forging a closer relationship with nature before we destroy it. In
The Heartbeat of Trees, he takes us deep into the global forest to show us how.
