As a matter of fact, without trees, human beings would not be able to live. Humanity owes them a whole lot: tree clean the air we breathe and assist guarantee the availability of water, even in the globe’s most remote areas. In these book chapters, follow him on a journey through the forest that will make you see our green friends in a completely new dimension.Ĭhapter 1 – Our planet’s lungs: Trees play a significant part in worldwide water and carbon dioxide cycles.īefore going into the interesting skills of trees, let’s examine briefly at their overall significance. His admiration of the woods and its dwellers is clear in all the lines that he writes. He practices a natural form of forestry that is fertile and humane – the one that he’s improved with his unbelievable eye for information and his huge factual understanding. When he was a child, he already wished to work in environmental protection, and at the moment has worked for over 30 years with trees. Nobody is more appropriate to tell you this whole thing than Peter Wohlleben, who has used his whole life among the trees. They have taken up the craziest ecological niches and have formed friendships, resentments, and alliances with all other possible living things. In their million-year-long history, trees have grown amazing skills that assist them in the lifetime wrestle to secure water, nutrients, and light. Now you can see, there is so much to find out in the woods. Or are you already aware that they possess their own type of electric internet that allows them to notify friends and families, from miles away, about an insect invasion? Or that, when there’s not sufficient nitrogen in the ground, they work together with fungi? Or that, they possess diverse personalities and decide when to drop their leaves? Well, sure! The thing is, trees aren’t as boring as you might assume. A book written about trees?! Those boring, green-and-brown things that don’t do anything except to stand there? That, at best, offer some shade or a suitable place to put a hammock?
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