![]() Free UK p&p over £10, online orders only. To order a copy for £8.49 (RRP £9.99) go to or call 03. Wohlleben wrote The Hidden Life of Trees, a smash hit in Germany. The Hidden Life of Trees – What they Feel, How they Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World is published by Harper Collins. ![]() He draws on groundbreaking scientific discoveries to describe how trees are like human families: tree parents live together with their children, communicate with them, support them as they grow, share nutrients with those who are sick or struggling, and. Wohlleben’s book will change your view of the wooded world. xxxi, 319 pages 21 cm Are trees social beings Forester and author Peter Wohlleben makes the case that, yes, the forest is a social network. Trees are, for instance, “social beings”, communicating with each other through their roots, thanks to the fungal “ wood wide web” that permeates the forest soil, even sharing nutrients in hard times. ![]() Wohlleben’s aim is to let us see the trees and forests around us not just as “lumber factories” but as wondrous organisms, as complex as any animal. He starts with wise words for those entering a forest: “Slow down, breathe deep and look around.” Not only is the air cleaner under trees, as their leaves filter out harmful pollutants, but pine forests release defensive compounds that kill germs: “Trees disinfect their surroundings.” Trees also release oxygen, so a walk in the woods is “like taking a shower in oxygen”. ![]() Wohlleben draws on decades of experience as a forester in Germany’s Eifel mountains for this eye-opening book. ![]() One of the world’s most venerable trees is a spruce in Sweden that is 9,500 years old. A ccording to Peter Wohlleben, we fail to understand trees because “they live on a different time scale” from us. ![]()
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