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The Power of Trees: How Ancient Forests Can Save Us If We Let Them

The Power of Trees: How Ancient Forests Can Save Us If We Let Them

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Translated byJane Billinghurst
ISBN 9781778401749|Paperback|271 pages|2023|Greystone Books
Translated by Jane Billinghurst

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Author : Peter Wohlleben
Translated by Jane Billinghurst

9781778401749 | PB | pp. 271 | 2023 | Greystone Books

In The Power of Trees, the charismatic forester, Peter Wohlleben, argues that trees can be a powerful weapon in the fight against climate change – so long as we leave them alone.

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The author of The Power of Trees, Peter Wohlleben’s idea is this: leave forests alone. Stop fiddling with them, thinking that we can deal with climate change better than nature. If we fiddle, our Romes will burn.

His previous book, The Hidden Life, argued that trees are social and sensate. The Power of Trees shows that they can be our saviours. But it’s terribly hard to let ourselves be saved. We think we can be the authors of our salvation. We are doers by constitution. Of course, there are things we could and should be doing, but in terms of forestry practice, often what’s billed as part of the solution is part of the problem.

Forests cool by transpiring. If there’s no water, there’s no cooling. Drought can kill trees fast, but trees have many sophisticated ways of dealing with it, and Wohlleben sets them out. As a species, we have survived many climatic changes by changing our behaviour – and that’s how trees survive, too. Crucially, trees learn from their past traumas and produce offspring programmed with those lessons. Trees that have narrowly escaped drought are more prudent in the future: they slow their growth and ration their drinking.

If we don’t learn to leave the trees alone, the trees will eventually be alone anyway – but without us. Wohlleben brilliantly and readably shows us how urgent and how hard it is to do nothing.

This text excerpted from this review in The Guardian.

Author:

Peter Wohlleben
Translated by Jane Billinghurst
ISBN:

9781778401749
Publisher

Greystone Books
Binding:

Paperback
Pages

271
Year of Publication:

2023
Edition:

First
Condition:

New
Country of Origin:

India

About the Author

Peter Wohlleben (born 1964) is a German forester and author who writes on ecological themes in popular language and has controversially argued for plant sentience.

Jane Billinghurst is a nature lover, master gardener, editor, translator, and author of six books.

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