Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I have a different perspective, I have a PhD in plant molecular genetics, a MS in Plant Pathology specifically mycorrhizae, a BS in Botany. The scientist in me can't take Wohlleben's anthropomorphising of trees. My husband bought this book and I so wanted to read it and enjoy it. But I couldn't get past the non-science. In the broadest sense of communication all living beings communicate with one another. Communication in the form of chemical signals that prompt a chemical response in another organism. It isn't that WohlleBen is completely off base, but why does he have to dilute the amazing scientifically based truth with the mystical stuff of Tolkienian tales. Trees are trees and they are not like people and please don't turn them into something they aren't. Many people will love the fairy tale perspective of feeling and talking trees and will seek to see them walking from place to place in the forest, but they don't do that. The subject of interactions between species and within species has been known for a long time. It is truly a facinating area of study and is more so as our understanding of molecular biology increases.