The Hidden Life of Trees
by Peter Wohlleben
A German forester on how trees communicate through fungal networks, share nutrients, nurse their young and live on timescales we cannot feel. Scientists quibble with the anthropomorphism; readers come out walking through forests differently, which is the point.
Read it if…
you want to slow down and look at something older than your problems.
Skip it if…
you want rigorous botany; it is popular and warm.
Three things you will actually use
- Slow things are not simple things.
- Cooperation is the forest's strategy.
- Time scales change what counts as patience.
Do this first
Read the chapter on the wood-wide web and stand under an old tree for ten minutes.
Our verdict
Forests, differently.
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