Diana Beresford-Kroeger is a botanist, researcher and lecturer who is an expert on the environmental, nutritional and herbicidal properties of trees. Her previous books include Arboretum America and A Garden For Life. She has loved trees all her life, and her garden includes over 100 species.
Beresford-Kroeger's ideas are a rare approach to natural history...
The essays of The Global Forest are a beautiful and poetic tribute
to their subject, based on wide-ranging scientific knowledge.
*Harvard University*
A beautifully written and carefully constructed book ... As I
walked to work this morning, I did begin to see the trees with a
newfound respect and awe
*New Scientist*
[H]as the potential to do for trees what Rachel Carson's Silent
Spring did for peregrines in the 1960s. The Global Forest has
amazing breadth...Easy to read, each of her short essays could
inspire a week's meditation. Live with them and discover your place
in the global forest...When you have read this book you may want to
embrace its author.
*BBC Wildlife magazine*
Diana Beresford-Kroeger has woven together ecology, ancient myth,
horticulture, spirituality, science and alternative medicine in The
Global Forest to capture trees' enormous significance to us... each
of these forty interlocking essays picks out a different aspect of
life in the forest, explains it and then shows why it is so vitally
important.
*The Green Parent*
This book has a simple and important message: trees are important,
we should look after them more, cut them down less, conserve their
habitats, revere them more
*Times Higher Education*
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