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HTML:The author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist The Forest Unseen visits with nature??s most magnificent networkers ?? trees
"At once lyrical and informative, filled with beauty." ?? Elizabeth Kolbert, author of The Sixth Extinction
David Haskell??s award-winning The Forest Unseen won acclaim for eloquent writing and deep engagement with the natural world. Now, Haskell brings his powers of observation to the biological networks that surround all species, including humans.
Haskell repeatedly visits a dozen trees around the world, exploring the trees?? connections with webs of fungi, bacterial communities, cooperative and destructive animals, and other plants. An Amazonian ceibo tree reveals the rich ecological turmoil of the tropical forest, along with threats from expanding oil fields. Thousands of miles away, the roots of a balsam fir in Canada survive in poor soil only with the help of fungal partners. These links are nearly two billion years old: the fir??s roots cling to rocks containing fossils of the first networked cells.
By unearthing charcoal left by Ice Age humans and petrified redwoods in the Rocky Mountains, Haskell shows how the Earth??s climate has emerged from exchanges among trees, soil communities, and the atmosphere. Now humans have transformed these networks, powering our societies with wood, tending some forests, but destroying others. Haskell also attends to trees in places where humans seem to have subdued ??nature? ?? a pear tree on a Manhattan sidewalk, an olive tree in Jerusalem, a Japanese bonsai?? demonstrating that wildness permeates every location.
Every living being is not only sustained by biological connections, but is made from these relationships. Haskell shows that this networked view of life enriches our understanding of biology, human nature, and ethics. When we listen to trees, nature??s great connectors, we learn how to inhabit the relationships that give life its source, substance, and beauty.
Read by Cassandra Campbell, with the preface and tw… (más)
I enjoyed the book and learned a fair amount about the lives of trees and the interconnected nature of “nature” and man in general. I felt like I’d have liked more science and less philosophy, but I think the title was sufficient to earn me there might be a bit more of the latter, so I really can’t complain. Actually , an often lovely book ( )
John Muir said, "When we try and pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe." Haskell's book is about how trees serve as a marvelous nexus that connects individual humans to one another and to other denizens of nature. (Haskell is adamant that humans and our machines not be thought of as "non-natural" or "outside of nature".) It builds upon themes from his prior book, The Forest Unseen, but indulges in some much more poetic writing that serves his purpose of reminding us of our attachments to all around us. For me, personally, Peter Wohlleben's The Hidden Life of Trees was a more profound awakening. But had I not run across that book first, it might have been The Song of Trees that opened my eyes to a greater awareness of the truth Muir wrote. ( )
I like the purpose of the book in revealing the complex, little-known world of trees and how elements of nature are intricately entwined. I like the meditative vibe as the author narrates the reader through various scenes. I like the scientific explanations and environmental change implications. Somehow, though, in this case the sum is not greater than its parts. ( )
Some very good writing on trees and their stories, though honestly I found my eyes rolling a few times at the over-flowery language. Sometimes it just got to be a bit much. ( )
The big hole at the heart of this book is Africa. I feel like crowd sourcing a fund to send David Haskell to finish the book. Apart from that it was personal and interesting and I liked it a lot. ( )
History.
Nature.
Science.
Nonfiction.
HTML:The author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist The Forest Unseen visits with nature??s most magnificent networkers ?? trees
"At once lyrical and informative, filled with beauty." ?? Elizabeth Kolbert, author of The Sixth Extinction
David Haskell??s award-winning The Forest Unseen won acclaim for eloquent writing and deep engagement with the natural world. Now, Haskell brings his powers of observation to the biological networks that surround all species, including humans.
Haskell repeatedly visits a dozen trees around the world, exploring the trees?? connections with webs of fungi, bacterial communities, cooperative and destructive animals, and other plants. An Amazonian ceibo tree reveals the rich ecological turmoil of the tropical forest, along with threats from expanding oil fields. Thousands of miles away, the roots of a balsam fir in Canada survive in poor soil only with the help of fungal partners. These links are nearly two billion years old: the fir??s roots cling to rocks containing fossils of the first networked cells.
By unearthing charcoal left by Ice Age humans and petrified redwoods in the Rocky Mountains, Haskell shows how the Earth??s climate has emerged from exchanges among trees, soil communities, and the atmosphere. Now humans have transformed these networks, powering our societies with wood, tending some forests, but destroying others. Haskell also attends to trees in places where humans seem to have subdued ??nature? ?? a pear tree on a Manhattan sidewalk, an olive tree in Jerusalem, a Japanese bonsai?? demonstrating that wildness permeates every location.
Every living being is not only sustained by biological connections, but is made from these relationships. Haskell shows that this networked view of life enriches our understanding of biology, human nature, and ethics. When we listen to trees, nature??s great connectors, we learn how to inhabit the relationships that give life its source, substance, and beauty.
Read by Cassandra Campbell, with the preface and tw
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