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Oct 11, 2016

"Listen to the trees as they sway in the wind. Their leaves are telling secrets." --Vera Nazarian

The Secret Life of Trees

In The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate, German forester Peter Wohlleben chronicles what his own experience of managing a forest in the Eifel mountains in Germany has taught him about the astonishing language of trees and how trailblazing arboreal research from scientists around the world reveals "the role forests play in making our world the kind of place where we want to live." As we're only just beginning to understand nonhuman consciousnesses, what emerges from Wohlleben's revelatory reframing of our oldest companions is an invitation to see anew what we have spent eons taking for granted and, in this act of seeing, to care more deeply about these remarkable beings that make life on this planet we call home not only infinitely more pleasurable, but possible at all.