The Heartbeat of Trees: Embracing Our Ancient Bond with Forests and Nature by Peter Wohlleben

3.71 AVERAGE

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wallsc's review against another edition

3.5
informative inspiring reflective relaxing slow-paced
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rookieranger's review against another edition

4.0
adventurous emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective relaxing medium-paced
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thethinwomanreads's review against another edition

5.0
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booksandhikingboots's review against another edition

4.0
informative medium-paced
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lymadebell's review against another edition

2.0
Read the secret life of trees instead of this one... This book is so dreary and tries for hope but ends up making you feel like nothing you do can help the forest. Peter Wohlleben loves trees and supporting forests, but this book preached on too many ways we are failing. If you want read this other tree book, it's informative and interesting.

solarcat's review against another edition

2.0
Overall, I liked some aspects of this book but felt it was lacking in some areas that I wanted to know more about. It has good information and interesting phenomena to think about but I feel that it should have been written for a broader audience and included more context for specific things happening in Germany/Europe, as not everyone lives there and knows what kinds of issues are happening currently. I was confused at some parts because of this. I also feel like it should have included more information about Native American's practices towards trees to offer more insight on how to save and nurture our forests. It just needed more perspective from them, I think, to help 'embrace our ancient bond with forests and nature'. I think this book offers a lot of hope and has opened my eyes to how important old growth forests are and how, really, most of the 'forests' that I see here in the PNW aren't actually old growth or native to the area at all. I am excited to get more in touch with nature from this book though, which I think was its goal.

kim4673's review against another edition

3.75
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dyannareads's review against another edition

3.75
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queer_kitties's review against another edition

3.75
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spaghettireads's review against another edition

DID NOT FINISH: 25%
Had to return to library, will continue at another time.