The wood wide web of trees

A German forester makes an eloquent case for reconsidering man's relationship with forests as living, communicating entities, beyond the narrow economic view of plantations for harvest

Mahesh Rangarajan  November 5, 2016 Last Updated at 00:28 IST

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THE HIDDEN LIFE OF TREES:  WHAT THEY FEEL, HOW THEY COMMUNICATE Author: Peter Wohlleben Publisher: Penguin Allen Lane Pages: 319 Price: Rs 499 The sub-title of this book is more intriguing than the title. It reads: "What they feel, how they communicate". The author is a veteran German forester, but one who has transcended what he feels is the narrow economic view of the forest. He was trained to see trees as lumber, and the forest as growing stock. But drawing on path-breaking work done by the Canadian scientist Suzanne Simmard in 1997, he rediscovered the very forests ...

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The wood wide web of trees