FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE
NEW YORK TIMES
BESTSELLER,
THE HIDDEN LIFE OF TREES
A powerful return to the forest, where trees have heartbeats and roots are like brains that extend underground. Where the color green calms us, and the forest sharpens our senses.
In
The Heartbeat of Trees,
renowned forester Peter Wohlleben draws on new scientific discoveries to show how humans are deeply connected to the natural world.In an era of cell phone addiction, climate change, and urban life, many of us fear we’ve lost our connection to nature—but Peter Wohlleben is convinced that age-old ties linking humans to the forest remain alive and intact.
Drawing on science and cutting-edge research,
The Heartbeat of Trees
reveals the profound interactions humans can have with nature, exploring:
the language of the forest
the consciousness of plants
and the eroding boundary between flora and fauna.
A perfect book to take with you into the woods,
shares how to see, feel, smell, hear, and even taste the forest.
Peter Wohlleben, renowned for his ability to write about trees in an engaging and moving way, reveals a wondrous cosmos where humans are a part of nature, and where conservation and environmental activism is not just about saving trees—it’s about saving ourselves, too.
Praise for
“As human beings, we’re desperate to feel that we’re not alone in the universe. And yet we are surrounded by an ongoing conversation that we can sense if, as Peter Wohlleben so movingly prescribes, we listen to the heartbeat of all life.”
—Richard Louv, author of
Our Wild Calling a
nd
Last Child in the Woods
“Astonishment after astonishment—that is the great gift of
. It is both a celebration of the wonders of trees, and a howl of outrage at how recklessly we profane them.”
—Kathleen Dean Moore, author of
Earth’s Wild Music
“As Peter Wohlleben reminds us in
, trees are the vocabulary of nature as forests are the brainbank of a living planet. This was the codex of the ancient world, and it must be the fine focus of our future.”
—Dr. Diana Beresford-Kroeger, author of
To Speak for the Trees
and
The Global Forest
“Peter Wohlleben knows the battle that lies before us: forging a closer relationship with nature before we destroy it. In
he takes us deep into the global forest to show us how.”
—Jim Robbins, author of
The Man Who Planted Trees