The Power of Trees

By Peter Wohlleben, Jane Billinghurst (translator),

Book cover of The Power of Trees: How Ancient Forests Can Save Us if We Let Them

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"Another love letter from Wohlleben to the green world... makes the case for how we should allow forests throughout the world to regrow and in the process help heal not only the climate but us, as well."-Lydia Millet, Oprah Daily

An illuminating manifesto on ancient forests: how they adapt to…

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1 author picked The Power of Trees as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

I discovered Wohlleben’s book when I was writing about my own emergent relationship with trees. I was learning to think with quantum field theory and new materialism, and very conscious of the way some of my writing was sounding like I was teetering on the edge of madness.

Wohlleben offered me insights into my own relations with trees, and he enabled me to articulate not only my love of trees but the Earth’s dependence on them as they grow together in old-growth forests. At the same time, Wohlleben makes horribly clear the motivation of politicians globally to destroy old-growth forests…

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