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254 reviews for:
The Heartbeat of Trees: Embracing Our Ancient Bond with Forests and Nature
Peter Wohlleben
3.71 AVERAGE
254 reviews for:
The Heartbeat of Trees: Embracing Our Ancient Bond with Forests and Nature
Peter Wohlleben
3.71 AVERAGE
informative
inspiring
medium-paced
the audiobook was soooo relaxing that I tuned out entire chunks of it, so take this with a grain of salt, but I felt that thematically this book jumped around a lot and maybe needed a narrower focus
hopeful
informative
inspiring
relaxing
slow-paced
informative
reflective
slow-paced
I've been reading lots of books about trees lately. I'm not sure what has drawn me to them so much recently, but drawn I have been. Richard Powers's excellent Overstory may have started it, but I have always loved forests, especially mountain forests. Growing up near Santa Cruz means that I got to spend a lot of time in those trees.
This book brought me over to European, specifically German, forests, which are places that I don't know much about. That is another selling point for me--if I can learn about another place to put on the travel bucket list, all the better!
As with most books about forests and trees that I have read, this book encourages (without being preachy) activism. Forested areas in our world need help now if we are to have more than ornamental or plantation forests to experience in real life. A couple of years ago I visited family on the Washington side of the Washington/Oregon border just outside Portland. I remember dense forests spreading in a canopy over nearly the whole road in (which might be childhood fantasies), but the reality is so much different now. There are still stands of trees sprinkled between the city and my aunt and uncle's home, but the clear cuts behind them tell the story of the fake out that 'thinning' really is.
I want my children to be able to enjoy forested places the way I did growing up, but the way we're going, I'm not sure that they will be able to.
This book brought me over to European, specifically German, forests, which are places that I don't know much about. That is another selling point for me--if I can learn about another place to put on the travel bucket list, all the better!
As with most books about forests and trees that I have read, this book encourages (without being preachy) activism. Forested areas in our world need help now if we are to have more than ornamental or plantation forests to experience in real life. A couple of years ago I visited family on the Washington side of the Washington/Oregon border just outside Portland. I remember dense forests spreading in a canopy over nearly the whole road in (which might be childhood fantasies), but the reality is so much different now. There are still stands of trees sprinkled between the city and my aunt and uncle's home, but the clear cuts behind them tell the story of the fake out that 'thinning' really is.
I want my children to be able to enjoy forested places the way I did growing up, but the way we're going, I'm not sure that they will be able to.
hopeful
informative
reflective
medium-paced
challenging
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
sad
medium-paced
informative
inspiring
reflective
relaxing
medium-paced
hopeful
informative
medium-paced
inspiring
reflective
relaxing
slow-paced
Relaxing. Reverent. Beautiful.
Enjoyed this one almost as much as Wohlleben's last book on nature.
Meander.
Chapter 104: "With them (children) dictating the pace. If children have to keep up with the adults all the time, if they have to keep quiet so as not to disturb the animals, and if at every discovery they are told to please get a move on, it won't be long before a walk in the woods will bore them to death."
Animals often relax with noisy people because noisy people are not a threat.
Enjoyed this one almost as much as Wohlleben's last book on nature.
Meander.
Chapter 104: "With them (children) dictating the pace. If children have to keep up with the adults all the time, if they have to keep quiet so as not to disturb the animals, and if at every discovery they are told to please get a move on, it won't be long before a walk in the woods will bore them to death."
Animals often relax with noisy people because noisy people are not a threat.