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The hidden life of trees is an unexpectedly fascinating look at the way trees live, grow, survive communicate with and support each other in their natural environments. The author is a romantic and he wants to see trees as fully-developed living creat... Read More
The author describes his work and the knowledge he gained as a forester. He strives hard to make trees and their lives relatable to everyday people. His relationship with the trees is reminiscent of that kind of revolution in primate study that jane g... Read More
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The author continuously spewed ridiculous claims with no scientific backing. The misinterpretation and incomplete translation of scientific papers is all over this book. The author indeed has a gift, but that gift is misused, compromising truth in fav... Read More
A tree with a trunk twice as thick is not twice as large. Carbon dioxide finds its final resting place in the form of humus. Since beeches create clones, the older and younger trees he describes are not separate trees, not friends as he later calls th... Read More
Forests are not first and foremost lumber factories and warehouses for raw material, and only secondarily complex habitats for thousands of species. He actually blames commercial logging for preventing coal from being formed, after having explained th... Read More
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He’s english but copes admirably with the delightfulsounding german words thrown in
I love trees and so i like that i can better connect with them with the knowledge i gained in this book
Not that he doesn’t know his science — it’s just that his relationship with the trees is reminiscent of that kind of revolution... Read More
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I always felt the personality and comradery of trees
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It’s not a topic i’ve ever given much thought to and he doesn’t present much in the way of evidence or references basing his explanations on his many years looking after native german forests
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His anthropomorphisms are cute but ended up making a strange kind of sense
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I found this book to easy to read and informative
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After reading this book you can never cut down trees
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Too bad no credit was given to the author of that complexity
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And yet isn’t the same personification that begins to annoy an educated reader the same technique that first enticed to read
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Not that he doesn’t know his science — it’s just that his relationship with the trees is reminiscent of that kind of revolution in primate study that jane goodall and others pioneered
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It’s a study of trees for trees’ sake if you want to think of it like that
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