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Un hombre se sienta cada día durante un año en la misma piedra del mismo bosque, a veces bien abrigado contra el frío y la lluvia, otras a pleno sol, a veces sin que pase nada, otras asistiendo a acontecimientos increíbles, y lo narra en un libro. Un año oyendo cantar a los pájaros, viendo caer y nacer las hojas, siguiendo el trayecto de las hormigas, oyendo al fondo el ruido de la carretera o de una motosierra. En un metro de bosque está el mundo entero, y en él empieza y termina este libro que, créalo o no, apasiona al lector como la mejor de las novelas y le descubre una realidad insospechada como el mejor de los ensayos.Finalista del premio Pulitzer de no ficción… (más)
danhammang: He covers it all, the deep geological history of Ohio, Michigan and the Great Lakes, the flora, the fauna and the impact of humans along the shores, streams and fields of the southern shore of Lake Erie. His love of the land and knowledge of his subject matter is matched, perhaps excelled, by the poetry of his language. It's a great read.… (más)
In a way, this is a nice companion piece to The Hidden Life of Trees. Its scope is broader, encompassing more info on insects, birds, mammals, etc. But it does a great job of conveying how interconnected all of nature is. ( )
Enjoyable. Often I have trouble keeping focused on the narrative when listening to an audiobook, easily distracted by what I'm seeing around me or prone to dozing if I close my eyes, and this was unfortunately the case with this book. As enjoyable as I found the audiobook, the regular book form would have fitted me better. ( )
I followed up The Overstory with The Forest Unseen by David George Haskell. Haskell, a biologist, adopts a meter-wide area of western Tennessee forest to examine over the course of a year. His observations of this world, from the tops of the trees to the leaf mulch and below, lead to detailed and engaging explorations of the natural world. Haskell covered some of the topics the Powers did and lamented man's impact on nature although his book is a bit more joyful. I have added his others books--Sounds Wild and Broken and The Songs of Trees to my TBR list. ( )
Observing a small piece of ground over the course of a year in an old growth forest, the author takes us through the seasons observing from tiny microbes to the air above the canopy. He describes animal and plant life beautifully in quote-worthy descriotions. 5+++ ( )
Very nice diary of essays by a biologist who visits a spot in the Tennessee old-growth woods during the course of a year. All kinds of insights about how all the life is entwined. Some very interesting looks at how things like fungus and trees help each other, and some interesting life-histories of things like fireflies, salamanders, and mushrooms. A tiny bit on the somber side though. ( )
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
The tree’s answer to the wind’s force echoes the Taoism of the lichens: don’t fight back, don’t resist; bend and roll, let your adversary exhaust herself against your yielding. The analogy is reversed, for the Taoists drew their inspiration from nature, so “the Tao is Tree-ist” is more accurate.
Military planners in the Second World War noticed that color-blind soldiers were better at seeing through camouflage than were soldiers with normal vision. More recent experiments have confirmed that dichromats (people with two types of color receptors in their eyes, so-called red-green color-blind) are better camouflage breakers than are trichromats (people with three receptor types, the more common condition in humans).
Dichromats detect boundaries in texture that are missed by trichromats, who are fixated on and misled by variations in color.
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Un hombre se sienta cada día durante un año en la misma piedra del mismo bosque, a veces bien abrigado contra el frío y la lluvia, otras a pleno sol, a veces sin que pase nada, otras asistiendo a acontecimientos increíbles, y lo narra en un libro. Un año oyendo cantar a los pájaros, viendo caer y nacer las hojas, siguiendo el trayecto de las hormigas, oyendo al fondo el ruido de la carretera o de una motosierra. En un metro de bosque está el mundo entero, y en él empieza y termina este libro que, créalo o no, apasiona al lector como la mejor de las novelas y le descubre una realidad insospechada como el mejor de los ensayos.Finalista del premio Pulitzer de no ficción
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