Manages a forest in the Eifel mountains in Germany, and is most familiar with beeches and oaks – knowledge can be applied to any forest (x)Įxample to show ‘how vital undisturbed forests and woodlands are to the future of the planet:’ Isolated trees have shorter lives than forest trees (viii)Īgricultural plants have been ‘rendered deaf and dumb’ (ix) Introduction to the English Edition Trees communicate because they need one another to create a microclimate ‘suitable for growth and sustenance'(viii) Trees stay connected by a ‘wood wide web’ of soil fungi (viii) Sometimes nourishing stumps to keep them alive, Flannery speculates that they may be parental trees (viii) Trees in a forest care for each other (viii) Trees use taste and smell to communicate (viii) Trees live at a different time scale than people do (vii)Ī spruce in Sweden is 9,500 years old (vii)ġ15 x longer than the human lifespan (vii) just staggering – what else are we not giving respect to because we don’t appreciate it fully in our short lifespans?Įlectrical impulses move through the roots of trees at 1/3 of an inch per second (vii) what’s our rate of electrical impulses? Italics are my questions, comments, and thoughts inspired by the notes. This first post covers the foreword, the two introductions by author Peter Wohlleben, and chapter 1. Started reading The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate : Discoveries from a Secret World by Peter Wohlleben foreword by Tim Flannery.
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