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A review by hannahpings
The Heartbeat of Trees: Embracing Our Ancient Bond with Forests and Nature by Peter Wohlleben
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
3.25
the hearbeat of trees left me disappointed after it was referenced in another book i'd enjoyed. rather than having anything particularly new to say––or even the ghost of a thesis––it felt to me like a book picked up not because of its own merit, but solely on the past merits of its author. wohleben has had an incredible career and certainly deserves recognition, but i'm not sure this book would have been published had someone else written it.
heartbeat is more a summary than anything else: indeed, a good chunk of the book is wohleben describing different studies that he only very loosely connects (if he connects them at all) with absolutely no synthesis. the rest of the book is made up of recounts of wohleben's own experiences, which, while fascinating, stray farther from what he's purporting to write about here and more into adjacent topics, like forestry. they're not an unrelated topics per se, but it happens on a scale and to an extent that heartbeat wanders in and out of its own scope.
heartbeat is more a summary than anything else: indeed, a good chunk of the book is wohleben describing different studies that he only very loosely connects (if he connects them at all) with absolutely no synthesis. the rest of the book is made up of recounts of wohleben's own experiences, which, while fascinating, stray farther from what he's purporting to write about here and more into adjacent topics, like forestry. they're not an unrelated topics per se, but it happens on a scale and to an extent that heartbeat wanders in and out of its own scope.