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Review The Hidden Life of Trees Peter Wohlleben 
The Hidden Life of Trees” is an amazing book presenting trees as sentient, purposeful beings living in dynamic relationship with each other. This is a new aspect for most of us, but apparently has been part of the secret knowledge of foresters since the early 1990’s. Trees, have a sense of time, have memories, taste, smell, feel, explore, see, and hear, but not like we do. Trees even move, from generation to generation just not as individuals. Trees live on a much slower time platform than we do. This single fact has hidden the true life of the trees from us. “The Hidden Life of Trees” is carefully and well presented with humor, with gentleness, with compassion, with joy, even with love. The book is not a scientific, heavy fact laden tome. It is a very readable presentation of the last two decades of research into the lives of our follow beings on Earth, the Trees. The author is a German forester, environmentalist who obviously cares very much for his topic of choice. The book was originally published in German in 2015 as “Das geheime Leben der Baume.” The translation is beautiful prose. Granted many of the examples are of the Central European forest. But there are many examples from our US forests as well. I recommend this book to any one with a love for trees. But be prepared to revise your view of trees from objects to follow beings here on Earth.