The Songs of Trees: Stories from Nature's Great Connectors
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| Rating | : | 4.33 (830 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B071YFJQJ5 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 597 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-06-02 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Now Haskell brings his powers of observation to the biological networks that surround all species, including humans. When we listen to trees, nature's great connectors, we learn how to inhabit the relationships that give life its source, substance, and beauty.. Now humans have transformed these networks, powering our societies with wood, tending some forests but destroying others. 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. 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. An ian 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. David Haskell's award-winning The Forest Uns
Abigail Wright said My idea of summer reading. Well-written meditation on the lives of trees, from the sounds they make in the forest to the underworld communities that support and communicate with them. This lovely book offers many ideas, musings, concepts, and science to think about. It's easy to read and well-organized. You can start at the beginning and read all the way through, or skip around. The book has an extensive bibliography at the end, for . A beautiful book that is concrete, poetic, and abstract all at the same time Russ Abbott The book's messages is that it takes a community to do virtually anything in biology. David George Haskell conveys that message in two ways. He examines specific trees and their environments around the world, about a dozen of them. He writes like an obsessed poet. The following is from Haskell's chapter on the balsam fir.Part of a plant's intelligence exists not inside the body but in relationship with othe. "Thought provoking" according to traveler. For those of us who sometimes stop in our tracks at the sight of a particularly interesting tree, who feel at home in a forest and have always had a relationship with 'favorite 'trees, will enjoy this book. It is much more than a book about trees, however, it is the story of life itself.