![]() ![]() That networks take years to build and can be destroyed in bare days. ![]() The books detailed quite beautifully why one cannot reasonably balance the felling or clearance of an established woodland by simply planting new trees, and why maturity matters to both trees and forests. It shows how the forest is an interconnected society of different species, each watching the other and waiting for opportunity for maximising their own potential and that of their kind.įor a non-academic work there are dozens of references to other works cited in the back. It describes in prosaic and scientific terms how trees warn of impending crises, such as pests and disease, drought and drench. ![]() We are learning more and more nowadays about how the “natural world” is as communicative as the human one, and this book speaks of the networks that exist between trees, above and below ground. I read the whole book through over a few days, never finding it dull or daft, and where science was involved it was easily understood. She pointed out it was although interesting tainted by the anthropomorphism within it, and I smiled and wrote back that it sounded like a decent book for druids.
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