Now comes The Secret Network of Nature, which feels like a combination of the two earlier books, an attempt to show the extensive and complex patterns of the natural world and, crucially, how human activity is destroying relationships that have existed in perfectly balanced symbiosis for tens of millions of years. The book’s observations were more familiar than those of its predecessor the ground better trod. Like Tim Birkhead in Bird Sense and Charles Foster in Being a Beast, Wohlleben demonstrated that animals experience the world with a depth and richness we often choose to ignore. The Inner Life of Animals sought to prompt a similar revolution in our attitudes towards animals. Where once we saw trees as isolated individuals, we now perceive a wood as a place of multiple and sophisticated interrelationships, many of them operating deep beneath the earth.
Trees of the same species send messages to one another via networks of mycorrhizal fungi, enabling them to issue warnings of potential danger, even to share nutrients. Published in Partnership with the David Suzuki Institute.Wohlleben is a forester in the Eifel mountains of western Germany and his Hidden Life of Trees brought together a great deal of scholarly work on the way that trees interact and “communicate”. In this tour of an almost unfathomable world, Wohlleben describes the fascinating interplay between animals and plants and answers such questions as: How do they influence each other? Do lifeforms communicate across species boundaries? And what happens when this finely tuned system gets out of sync? By introducing us to the latest scientific discoveries and recounting his own insights from decades of observing nature, one of the world's most famous foresters shows us how to recapture our sense of awe so we can see the world around us with completely new eyes. In The Secret Wisdom of Nature, master storyteller and international sensation Peter Wohlleben takes readers on a thought-provoking exploration of the vast natural systems that make life on Earth possible. But what are the processes that drive these incredible phenomena? And why do they matter? Nature is full of surprises: deciduous trees affect the rotation of the Earth, cranes sabotage the production of Iberian ham, and coniferous forests can make it rain. "As you read these pages you will understand why I so admire and am so in love with his work."-JANE GOODALL
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