Wohlleben uses current research to support what might otherwise sound outlandish. The questions Wohlleben asks are simple 5th-grade science class topics but the answers run as deep as the mystery he briefly illuminates for us, and our imaginations are sparked by how little we know about the invisible world. This is the lens through which the writer has come to better understand the tree community he manages as forester in the Eifel Mountains of Germany. In evolution, we were “split off from vegetation very early on,” Wohlleben states, and science has had to work a little harder to understand our plant friends. Are trees conscious, sentient beings? Groundbreaking scientific research is clouding the space between yes and no. The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate by Peter Wohlleben, 288 pages, 5½x7½, hardcover.
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