![]() ![]() Free UK p&p over £10, online orders only. To order a copy for £8.49 (RRP £9.99) go to or call 03. The Hidden Life of Trees – What they Feel, How they Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World is published by Harper Collins. In The Hidden Life of Trees, Peter Wohlleben shares his deep love of woods and forests and explains the amazing processes of life, death and regeneration he has observed in the woodland and the amazing. Wohlleben’s book will change your view of the wooded world. In The Hidden Life of Trees, forester Peter Wohlleben puts groundbreaking scientific discoveries into a language everyone can relate to. Trees are, for instance, “social beings”, communicating with each other through their roots, thanks to the fungal “ wood wide web” that permeates the forest soil, even sharing nutrients in hard times. Wohlleben’s aim is to let us see the trees and forests around us not just as “lumber factories” but as wondrous organisms, as complex as any animal. ![]() While trees don’t have a spoken or written language like humans do (as far as we know), that doesn’t stop them from sending messages throughout the forest. He starts with wise words for those entering a forest: “Slow down, breathe deep and look around.” Not only is the air cleaner under trees, as their leaves filter out harmful pollutants, but pine forests release defensive compounds that kill germs: “Trees disinfect their surroundings.” Trees also release oxygen, so a walk in the woods is “like taking a shower in oxygen”. Trees communicate with one another through scent. 2 The worlds oldest recorded tree is a 9,550 year old spruce in the Dalarna province of Sweden. Wohlleben draws on decades of experience as a forester in Germany’s Eifel mountains for this eye-opening book. How do trees live Do they feel pain or have awareness of their surroundings In The Hidden Life of Trees Peter Wohlleben makes the case that the forest is. The Hidden Life of Trees By Peter Wohlleben. One of the world’s most venerable trees is a spruce in Sweden that is 9,500 years old. A ccording to Peter Wohlleben, we fail to understand trees because “they live on a different time scale” from us. The Hidden Life of Trees summary Our planets lungs: Trees play a vital role in global water and carbon dioxide cycles. ![]()
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