![]() Wohlleben makes no argument for the attribution of a richly psychological, recognizably human language to describe the lives of trees. These are tree urchins destined to live in rows too far from their neighbors and without the protection of friends and family. The job of the forester is to tend to these large-scale industrial plantations.Īt some point, Wohlleben seems to have been struck - as if by the tear-stained tree in the dream of the boy in my childhood book - by the sadness and imperfect development of the trees born into these artificial woods. Well-managed forests are farms for producing sustainable supplies of wood. As he explains, until very recently forest management has meant - and for the most part continues to mean - managing the valuable commodity produced in the forest, namely wood. Wohlleben is a forester, someone charged with managing an actual forest in Germany. But it's written from the standpoint of a person who lives and works with trees in the forest rather than someone who studies them. (It came out last year in German.) The book is dreamy and strange it tells about trees and their tightknit communities in the forest. This book came to mind as I read Peter Wohlleben's book T he Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate - Discoveries from a Secret World, which has just been translated into English. ![]() (If any of you know, please drop me a line!) I've asked book sellers and I've searched online. I can't remember the title and I haven't been able to track this book down. ![]() In the illustrations, you can see the father's tears in the gnarly bark of the tree. ![]() One of the endangered trees turns out to be the boy's father. The boy goes to sleep hungry and dreams that he is in a forest where the trees are threatened by an evil lumberjack. When I was a boy, I had a book about a father who sends his child to bed without dinner because he won't remove his tall hat at the table. ![]()
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