craig stennett

Peter Wohlleben is a German forester and author who writes on ecological themes in popular language.^[1]In his 2015 book about natural forests, Das geheime Leben der Bäume,^[2] he takes the perspective of the trees, much as Jacques Cousteau took the perspective of the inhabitants of the oceans. He uses storytelling to convey information from the scientific literature in a manner that echoes Nikko Tinbergen's writing on animals, or Carl Sagan's writing and public presentations about astronomy. Among other phenomena, this book introduces for a popular audience the "Wood-Wide Web", through which nutrition and signals are exchanged among trees.

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