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The Hidden Life of trees: What they Feel, How they...
The Hidden Life of trees: What they Feel, How they Communicate
While I have long loved forests in all their forms, I had never understood them as deep a way until this book enriched me, giving me as close to an inside perspective on what life as a tree might be like as I’m likely to get. Written by a forester with over 30 years experience managing a communal forest in Germany, the first thing it taught me to do was to slow down my perspective on time, and perceive what life lived at a very different rhythm and in vastly varying constraints must be like. Unlike the events of deep geological time, trees still change on a human scale while remaining able to live for several millennia. The tree your grandfather planted remains but a youngster.
Inspirational words from “The Hidden Life of Trees” – part of my inspiration for writing the bestselling novel “The Eagle Tree.”
