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The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World

Peter Wohlleben,

Tim Flannery (Foreword)

Start date: April 1, 2019

Finish date: April 30, 2019

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The Hidden Life of Trees What They Feel, How They Communicate – Discoveries from a Secret World by Peter Wohlleben

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Jul 02, 2018 ☘Misericordia☘ ⚡ϟ⚡⛈⚡☁ ❇️❤❣ rated it it was amazing

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Q: Trees are very social beings, and they help each other out. (c)

If even 10% of this is true, we live in a mode diverse world than we ever imagined.

Wood-wide-webs, allowing social interation between trees.
Trees in friendship, feeding, hugging and warning each other.
Trees having sense of taste and smell, talking to each other via sound waves of particular wavelengths.
Tree lottery.... Forest etiquette... Only a true lover of all things natural could have come up with such poetic topics to disc ...more

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Jan 24, 2018 Maria Beardsley rated it really liked it

Lots of great information about trees. The book really gets you to think about forest management. For the layperson who doesn’t know a lot about trees, it was hard to follow because there was so much information, to the point where I was not able to retain a lot of the info.

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