Pros & Cons
Pros
This book draws the curtain back, and invites us to participate in the grand drama all around us. Due to their sensitivity, the ravens alert the wolves if bears are close, so they can gobble as much meat as they can.
The book is more united by conveying scientifically valid facts with emotional resonance than by a strict focus on its subject. The most blatant facts are that often nature conservation efforts produce unexpected and often counter-intuitive results. T... Read More
Peter wohlleben, a conservationist from germany, begins with yellowstone park's program to rebuild the wolf population. His larger theme that macro-level ecosystems are so complex that it is best if we simply try to limit the effects of our species as... Read More
Highlights
Quality
It belongs with the church fathers and also in the libraries of all students of science and the natural world
I cannot say my worldview was transformed by this book but i can say i was not only entertained but educated to have more infor... Read More
They also show that they dont love their families friends or fellow human beings who will have to deal with the misery they hav... Read More
Competitiveness
He couldve shown more expansiveness branching out to other fields of science
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Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Instead through he tells us about fifteen stories about deep connections in nature that are not at all obvious even to self proclaimed nature lovers
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The world we live in is creating extremely self centered self occupied selfie loving young people we rarely think of other humans in other places let alone animals and plants and forests and beetles
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This was a good book relatively enjoyable reading and learned a thing or two but i found the author concentrated mostly on his own work in his field and little of others
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
He couldve shown more expansiveness branching out to other fields of science
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
This is not to say that the book has no larger themes
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Only that whether one likes the book will be less determined by virtue of its conclusions than by whether one likes anecdotal science
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Don’t mess with mother nature
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
This is light reading on a serious subject