Resources

Peter Wohlleben shares his deep love of woods and forests and explains the amazing processes of life, death, and regeneration he has observed in the woodland. Much like human families, tree parents live together with their children, communicate with them, and support them as they grow — sharing nutrients with those who are sick or struggling and creating an ecosystem that mitigates extremes of heat and cold for the whole group.

The world-leading scientist of plant communication and intelligence reveals how she discovered the secrets of the forest. Raised in the hardy forest communities of British Columbia, Suzanne Simard overturned conventional beliefs in proving that trees and plants are connected underground by an immense web of fungal mycelia, at the centre of which lie the Mother Trees: the mysterious, powerful entities that sustain the forest.

Winner of the 2018 John Burroughs Medal for Outstanding Natural History Writing. Haskell repeatedly visits a dozen trees, exploring connections with people, microbes, fungi, and other plants and animals — from cities like Manhattan and Jerusalem to Amazonian forests and areas on the front lines of environmental change. Scientific, lyrical, and contemplative, he reveals the biological connections that underpin all life.

A Pulitzer Prize finalist. Biologist David Haskell uses a one-square-metre patch of old-growth Tennessee forest as a window onto the entire natural world — visiting it almost daily for one year to trace nature's path through the seasons. Each chapter begins with a simple observation and spins a brilliant web of biology and ecology, explaining the science that binds together the tiniest microbes and the largest mammals.

The Giving Tree traces a boy's lifelong visits to a devoted apple tree — from carefree games in its shade, to taking its fruit, branches, and trunk to meet his changing needs. In old age, he finds rest on its stump, closing a bittersweet cycle of giving and receiving.