An ode to trees sounds like something from the era of Emerson or even Keats. Perhaps those luminaries have found a modern prose equivalent. Peter Wohlleben, a forest conservationist in Germany, has ...

A study in the journal Nature counts 228 billion trees growing in the United States. Wherever we go, from the deserts of Arizona to the streets of Manhattan, it’s rare that our gaze doesn’t fall on ...

Peter Wohlleben’s book has become bestseller in Germany but he tells Hay festival audience it has annoyed scientists Trees are social creatures that mother their young, talk to each other, experience ...

Tree-huggers will feel vindicated by Peter Wohlleben’s latest book, “The Heartbeat of Trees.” Far from the solitary giants we imagine them to be, trees are highly social creatures that communicate ...

Even small children know trees are living beings, says Peter Wohlleben, despite the fact you can burn them up in a cozy log fire. An amiable forester and the author of The Hidden Life of Trees, a ...

John Henry Newman, later Cardinal Newman, once told his congregation that they lived among spirits they could not see. He told them this in a sermon called “The Invisible World”. Angels and the souls ...

The secret life of trees. They talk to each other, says forester Peter Wohlleben. They have families. We’ll sit down with the tree whisperer. Are these trees talking to each other? It's possible.

Trees have feelings. They communicate with each other. They even have distinct personalities and memories. Michael talks to the author of The Hidden Life of Trees. Left: La Gomera, Canary Island, ...

You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Peter Wohlleben seesaws wildly between optimism and his rage about the long-term damage caused by the forestry industry.Gordon Welters Wohlleben ...

More and more people are taking delight in nature and not only want to see the forest, but also to experience it as intensely as they can. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, you ...

You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben. In the north of Greece, from around 550BCE, there was a ...

Is there a distinction to be made between living and being alive? Certainly the language suggests there is. To be "merely" living is to be passive, and gradual to the point of inanition – as TS Eliot ...