An ode to trees sounds like something from the era of Emerson or even Keats. Perhaps those luminaries have found a modern prose equivalent. Peter Wohlleben, a forest conservationist in Germany, has ...

Tree-huggers will feel vindicated by Peter Wohlleben’s latest book, “The Heartbeat of Trees.” Far from the solitary giants we imagine them to be, trees are highly social creatures that communicate ...

John Henry Newman, later Cardinal Newman, once told his congregation that they lived among spirits they could not see. He told them this in a sermon called “The Invisible World”. Angels and the souls ...

Even small children know trees are living beings, says Peter Wohlleben, despite the fact you can burn them up in a cozy log fire. An amiable forester and the author of The Hidden Life of Trees, a ...

The secret life of trees. They talk to each other, says forester Peter Wohlleben. They have families. We’ll sit down with the tree whisperer. Are these trees talking to each other? It's possible.

You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Peter Wohlleben seesaws wildly between optimism and his rage about the long-term damage caused by the forestry industry.Gordon Welters Wohlleben ...

Peter Wohlleben’s bestselling Mysteries of Nature trilogy – The Hidden Life of Trees, The Inner Life of Animals and his latest, The Secret Network of Nature – taps into a very human instinct: pattern ...

Is there a distinction to be made between living and being alive? Certainly the language suggests there is. To be "merely" living is to be passive, and gradual to the point of inanition – as TS Eliot ...

More and more people are taking delight in nature and not only want to see the forest, but also to experience it as intensely as they can. We often envy animals for the immediate, clear feedback their ...

Wohlleben wants to convince anyone who still stubbornly refuses to accept it that animals are thinking and, especially, feeling creatures Peter Wohlleben is well aware that what kept critics of The ...