![]() ![]() ![]() The author uses scientific research and his own observations to highlight how trees in a forest are social beings. More than that I am in awe of how spectacularly intelligent trees are! Though one can accuse Wohlleben of excessive anthropomorphism, it is also our limited spectrum of comprehension of the world of non-human beings that has kept us so far from understanding what is so simple and evident. Wohlleben's love for trees is so evident in The Hidden Life of Trees, so pure, so tender, that I just wanted to step out and hug the next tree I came across. ![]() On his realisation of the intricacy of a forest, with all the trees and fungi in it, he rightfully began to perceive it as a superorganism. German forester Peter Wohlleben's fateful discovery of ‘dead stone-like pieces of wood', still carrying traces of chlorophyll, 400-500 years after the tree was felled, changed his relationship with trees. However, new, path-breaking observations and studies are uncovering the hidden world of trees, and forcing us to rethink the way we look at them. For that matter, many of us wouldn't attach any ‘living attribute to a tree, except that they photosynthesise and provide us with oxygen'. First published in India by Penguin Random House India 2016Ĭaring, sharing, thinking, communicating, socialising, nurturing, despairing and manipulating are not attributes you would ever assign a tree. ![]()
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