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Yaa Gyasi's stunning follow-up to her acclaimed national best seller “Homegoing” is a powerful, raw, intimate, deeply layered novel about …
A linguistically informed look at how our digital world is transforming the English language.
Language is humanity's most spectacular open-source …
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Jade Daniels is an angry, half-Indian outcast with an abusive father, an absent mother, and an entire town that wants …
In The Hidden Life of Trees, Peter Wohlleben shares his deep love of woods …
The Hidden Life of Trees does exactly what the title said it would do: explain what we miss when we are moving too quickly to notice the lives of trees. Peter Wohlleben's experiences as a forester harvesting trees and as a conservationist of forests drives his tale that is "warmly avuncular, storybook simple, and heavily dusted with the glitter of wonderment" according to Robert Moor of the New Yorker.
Wohlleben explanation of reciprocal tree communities and the beech's rampage over other species brought wonder into an area that I had not through of much. His 30 years of experience that lead to a sustainable harvesting practice that involves removing individual trees with horses and mules. Robert Moor's article "The German Forester Who Wants the World to Idolize Trees", highlights some of the objections to the "fairy tales" in The Hidden Life of Trees.
Because I am the target audience of …
The Hidden Life of Trees does exactly what the title said it would do: explain what we miss when we are moving too quickly to notice the lives of trees. Peter Wohlleben's experiences as a forester harvesting trees and as a conservationist of forests drives his tale that is "warmly avuncular, storybook simple, and heavily dusted with the glitter of wonderment" according to Robert Moor of the New Yorker.
Wohlleben explanation of reciprocal tree communities and the beech's rampage over other species brought wonder into an area that I had not through of much. His 30 years of experience that lead to a sustainable harvesting practice that involves removing individual trees with horses and mules. Robert Moor's article "The German Forester Who Wants the World to Idolize Trees", highlights some of the objections to the "fairy tales" in The Hidden Life of Trees.
Because I am the target audience of the book, non-experts that love nature, I can't really evaluate his claims. I can say that the experience was soothing, the audiobook reader's voice is addictive (Mike Grady), and I have been thinking about trees and identifying them more in my daily life. I'd imagine that this is largely what Wohlleben wanted.
The German Forester Who Wants the World to Idolize Trees by Robert Moor: www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/the-german-forester-who-wants-the-world-to-idolize-trees
A Palestinian activist jailed at sixteen after a confrontation with Israeli soldiers illuminates the daily struggles of life under occupation …
"In this astonishing book from the author of the bestselling memoir The Good Good Pig, Sy Montgomery explores the emotional …
Gadsby's unique stand-up special Nanette was a viral success that left audiences captivated by her blistering honesty and her ability …
Coffee is an indispensable part of daily life for billions of people around the world--one of the most valuable commodities …
