![]() 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. ![]() 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”. ![]()
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