The Heartbeat of Trees: Embracing Our Ancient Bond with Forests and Nature: Signed Edition (Hardback)
Peter Wohlleben (author), Jane Billinghurst (translator)Published: 03/06/2021
The author of The Hidden Life of Trees expounds on humanity’s profound bonds with the natural world in this informed yet highly accessible guide to the flora and fauna all around us.
Signed Edition
A standard edition is available here
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Hidden Life of Trees
A powerful return to the forest, where trees have heartbeats and roots are like brains that extend underground. Where the color 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 we've lost our connection to nature-but Peter Wohlleben is convinced that 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 shares how to see, feel, smell, hear, and even taste the forest. Peter Wohlleben, renowned for his ability to write about trees in an engaging and moving 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.
Publisher: Greystone Books,Canada
ISBN: 2928377051501
Number of pages: 264
Dimensions: 216 x 140 mm
MEDIA REVIEWS
'As Peter Wohlleben reminds us in The Heartbeat of Trees, trees are the vocabulary of nature as forests are the brainbank of a living planet. This was the codex of the ancient world, and it must be the fine focus of our future.' - Dr. Diana Beresford-Kroeger, author of To Speak for the Trees and The Global Forest
'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.' - Kathleen Dean Moore, author of Earth's Wild Music
'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.' -Richard Louv, author of Our Wild Calling and Last Child in the Woods
'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.' - Jim Robbins, author of The Man Who Planted Trees
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