Review

Seeing the trees, and the forests, two new books bring our relationships to trees into focus

By David Ferrell
July 17 2021 - 12:00am
Not inanimate, nor unliving. Picture: Shutterstock
Not inanimate, nor unliving. Picture: Shutterstock

In his internationally best-selling book, The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate, famous German forest-guardian and eco-personality Peter Wohlleben argued that the sophistication and dynamism with which trees experienced and responded to the world, and even communicated with each other, complicated their classic characterisation as the most inanimate, unliving form of life.

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