Wohlleben’s book draws on scientific discoveries as well as his own observations as he shares the complex life of trees and shows how “a happy forest is a healthy forest” with economic and environmental benefits. But we have a choice to make things better without losing anything, so why not change direction?” It doesn’t mean that you’re unhappy afterward or that you have less money or that jobs are lost. All I want is that we come to a better balance with all things. All I want is, on the one hand, for people to have more fun with trees and, on the other hand, that all things that we do come with a better balance. “I am sitting on a chair made of wood, and that’s OK. “Firewood is made from trees,” says Wohlleben. Rather, like animal rights activists before him who campaigned for the humane treatment of animals, Wohlleben would like us to find a better balance between what we need and what we use, and to see trees as “more than just a commodity.” Before we share our interview with Peter Wohlleben, author of The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate-Discoveries from a Secret World (Greystone Books), let us preface it by saying that he doesn’t want you to give up books and nights by the fire.
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