Peter Wohlleben

The Hidden Life of Trees

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  • b7129997734has quoted7 years ago
    fairy tales of trees with human faces, trees that can talk, and sometimes walk.
  • b5832205031has quoted5 years ago
    The trees don’t want to take anything away from each other, and so they develop sturdy branches only at the outer edges of their crowns, that is to say, only in the direction of “non-friends.”
  • Ivanhas quoted5 years ago
    Life in the slow lane is clearly not always dull.
  • b7129997734has quoted7 years ago
    fairy tales of trees with human faces, trees that can talk, and sometimes walk.
  • b0544505716has quoted3 years ago
    The roots of forest trees don’t actually grow very deep

    Counterintuitively

  • b0544505716has quoted3 years ago
    lovingly cared for and watered

    Spoiled,pampered

  • b0544505716has quoted3 years ago
    Every fall, their roots are trimmed
  • MMhas quoted5 years ago
    One of the oldest trees on Earth, a spruce in Sweden, is more than 9,500 years old
  • Sofhas quoted2 years ago
    water

    shoots up the trunk with such force that if you place a stethoscope against the

    tree, you can actually hear it.
  • Alice Khas quoted2 years ago
    but there are different levels of membership. For example, most stumps rot away into humus and disappear within a couple of hundred years (which is not very long for a tree). Only a few individuals are kept alive over the centuries, like the mossy “stones” I’ve just described. What’s the difference? Do tree societies have second-class citizens just like human societies? It seems they do, though the idea of “class” doesn’t quite fit. It is rather the degree of connection—or maybe even affection—that decides how helpful a tree’s colleagues will be
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