
The Heartbeat of Trees
Embracing Our Ancient Bond with Forests and Nature
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Narrated by:
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Mike Grady
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By:
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Peter Wohlleben
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From the author of the New York Times best seller The Hidden Life of Trees
A powerful return to the forest, where trees have heartbeats and roots are like brains that extend underground. Where the color green calms us, and the forest sharpens our senses.
In The Heartbeat of Trees, renowned forester Peter Wohlleben draws on new scientific discoveries to show how humans are deeply connected to the natural world. In an era of climate change, many of us fear we’ve lost our connection to nature - but Peter Wohlleben is convinced that age-old ties linking humans to the forest remain alive and intact. We just have to know where to look.
Drawing on science and cutting-edge research, The Heartbeat of Trees reveals the profound interactions humans can have with nature, exploring:
- The language of the forest
- The consciousness of plants
- And the eroding boundary between flora and fauna.
A perfect book to take with you into the woods, The Heartbeat of Trees shares how to see, feel, smell, hear, and even taste the forest.
Peter Wohlleben, renowned for his ability to write about trees in an engaging and moving way, reveals a wondrous cosmos where humans are a part of nature, and where conservation and environmental activism is not just about saving trees - it’s about saving ourselves, too.
Praise for The Heartbeat of Trees
“As human beings, we’re desperate to feel that we’re not alone in the universe. And yet we are surrounded by an ongoing conversation that we can sense if, as Peter Wohlleben so movingly prescribes, we listen to the heartbeat of all life.” (Richard Louv, author of Our Wild Calling and Last Child in the Woods)
“Astonishment after astonishment - that is the great gift of The Heartbeat of Trees. It is both a celebration of the wonders of trees, and a howl of outrage at how recklessly we profane them.” (Kathleen Dean Moore, author of Earth’s Wild Music)
“As Peter Wohlleben reminds us in The Heartbeat of Trees, trees are the vocabulary of nature as forests are the brainbank of a living planet. This was the codex of the ancient world, and it must be the fine focus of our future.” (Dr. Diana Beresford-Kroeger, author of To Speak for the Trees and The Global Forest)
“Peter Wohlleben knows the battle that lies before us: forging a closer relationship with nature before we destroy it. In The Heartbeat of Trees he takes us deep into the global forest to show us how.” (Jim Robbins, author of The Man Who Planted Trees)
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An Amazon Editors' Pick: Best Nonfiction!
“It’s hard to dispute the book’s overall message; namely, that time spent in nature can serve as both a balm for anxiety and a bulwark against despair.” (Globe and Mail)
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“A simultaneously stimulating and soothing blend of nature writing and science.” (The Guardian)
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Discover the secret life of trees with this nature and science book for kids: Can You Hear the Trees Talking? shares the mysteries and magic of the forest with young listeners, revealing what trees feel, how they communicate, and the ways trees take care of their families. The author of The Hidden Life of Trees, Peter Wohlleben, tells kids about the forest internet, aphids who keep ants as pets, nature’s water filters, and more fascinating things that happen under the canopy.
By: Peter Wohlleben
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How to Read a Tree
- Clues and Patterns from Bark to Leaves
- By: Tristan Gooley
- Narrated by: Tristan Gooley
- Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins
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Tristan Gooley helps listeners reconnect with nature by finding direction and searching for hidden clues in stars, clouds, water and more. Now, he turns his attention to perhaps nature’s most beloved feature – the stately, majestic tree. Every single tree tells us an epic story – if we know how to read it! Here you’ll discover hundreds of astonishing secrets hiding in plain sight among the living network of branches, trunks, roots, bark, leaves, buds, flowers, stumps and more.
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For nature lovers
- By Rochester, MN on 03-05-24
By: Tristan Gooley
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Plants Have So Much to Give Us, All We Have to Do Is Ask
- Anishinaabe Botanical Teachings
- By: Mary Siisip Geniusz, Wendy Makoons Geniusz - editor
- Narrated by: Wendy Makoons Geniusz
- Length: 10 hrs and 49 mins
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Mary Siisip Geniusz has spent more than thirty years working with, living with, and using the Anishinaabe teachings, recipes, and botanical information, she shares in Plants Have So Much to Give Us, All We Have to Do Is Ask. Geniusz gained much of the knowledge she writes about from her years as an oshkaabewis, a traditionally trained apprentice, and as friend to the late Keewaydinoquay, an Anishinaabe medicine woman from the Leelanau Peninsula in Michigan and a scholar, teacher, and practitioner in the field of native ethnobotany.
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Use of plants
- By Anita on 11-10-24
By: Mary Siisip Geniusz, and others
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The Secret Life of Plants
- A Fascinating Account of the Physical, Emotional, and Spiritual Relations Between Plants and Man
- By: Peter Tompkins, Christopher Bird
- Narrated by: D. Michael Hope
- Length: 16 hrs and 28 mins
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Explore the inner world of plants and its fascinating relation to mankind, as uncovered by the latest discoveries of science. A perennial best seller! In this truly revolutionary and beloved work, drawn from remarkable research, Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird cast light on the rich psychic universe of plants. Now available in a new edition, The Secret Life of Plants explores plants' response to human care and nurturing, their ability to communicate with man, plants' surprising reaction to music, their lie-detection abilities, their creative powers, and much more.
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Skeptics beware. Lots of psychobabble.
- By Aardvarkmikey on 03-08-21
By: Peter Tompkins, and others
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Forest Bathing
- How Trees Can Help You Find Health and Happiness
- By: Dr. Qing Li
- Narrated by: Ramon Tikaram
- Length: 3 hrs and 21 mins
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As a society, we suffer from nature deficit disorder, but studies have shown that spending mindful, intentional time around trees—what the Japanese call shinrin-yoku, or forest bathing—can promote health and happiness. In this beautiful audiobook, Dr. Qing Li, the world's foremost expert in forest medicine, shows how forest bathing can reduce your stress levels and blood pressure, strengthen your immune and cardiovascular systems, boost your energy, mood, creativity, and concentration, and even help you lose weight and live longer.
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absolutely loved
- By Danielle on 01-14-19
By: Dr. Qing Li
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The Enchanted Life
- Unlocking the Magic of the Everyday
- By: Sharon Blackie
- Narrated by: Fiona Reid
- Length: 11 hrs and 13 mins
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Enchantment. By Dr. Sharon Blackie’s definition, a vivid sense of belongingness to a rich and many-layered world, a profound and whole-hearted participation in the adventure of life. Enchantment is a natural, spontaneous human tendency - one we possess as children, but lose, through social and cultural pressures, as we grow older. It is an attitude of mind which can be cultivated: the enchanted life is possible for anyone. It is intuitive, embraces wonder, and fully engages the mythic imagination - but it is also deeply embodied in ecology, grounded in place and community.
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A very disenchanting book
- By Wesley on 10-30-20
By: Sharon Blackie
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Rooted
- Life at the Crossroads of Science, Nature, and Spirit
- By: Lyanda Lynn Haupt
- Narrated by: Christine Williams
- Length: 5 hrs and 38 mins
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In Rooted, cutting-edge science supports a truth that poets, artists, mystics, and earth-based cultures across the world have proclaimed over millennia: Life on this planet is radically interconnected. Our bodies, thoughts, minds, and spirits are affected by the whole of nature, and they affect this whole in return. In this time of crisis, how can we best live upon our imperiled, beloved earth? Award-winning writer Lyanda Lynn Haupt’s highly personal new book is a brilliant invitation to live with the earth in both simple and profound ways.
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Managed to get halfway through.
- By IcarusGen2 on 06-09-22
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Rewilding
- Meditations, Practices, and Skills for Awakening in Nature
- By: Micah Mortali, Stephen Cope - foreword
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 8 hrs and 9 mins
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In his long-awaited book, Rewilding, Kripalu director Micah Mortali brings together yoga, mindfulness, wilderness training, and ancestral skills to create a unique guide for reigniting your primal energy - your undomesticated true self - and deepening your connection with the living earth. For hundreds of thousands of years, humans lived intimately with the earth. We were in the wild and of the wild. Today, we live mostly urban lives - and our vital wildness has gone dormant.
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A book that should have been a magazine article
- By Sarah Wheeldon on 11-21-23
By: Micah Mortali, and others
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Gathering Moss
- A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses
- By: Robin Wall Kimmerer
- Narrated by: Robin Wall Kimmerer
- Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
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Living at the limits of our ordinary perception, mosses are a common but largely unnoticed element of the natural world. Gathering Moss is a beautifully written mix of science and personal reflection that invites listeners to explore and learn from the elegantly simple lives of mosses.
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Soul Stirring
- By KatieBourgeois on 02-23-19
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Our Little Farm
- Adventures in Sustainable Living
- By: Peter Wohlleben, Miriam Wohlleben, Jane Billinghurst - translator
- Narrated by: Michael Langan
- Length: 6 hrs and 28 mins
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Called "a veritable tree whisperer" by the Wall Street Journal, Peter Wohlleben is known across the world for his illuminating books about forests and how to help them thrive. Now, the German forester invites listeners into his home for the first time in Our Little Farm, describing the steps he and his wife, Miriam, have taken to live sustainably and in harmony with nature.
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it's a great new read
- By Anonymous User on 09-02-24
By: Peter Wohlleben, and others
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Crossings
- How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet
- By: Ben Goldfarb
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Length: 11 hrs and 52 mins
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Some 40 million miles of roadways encircle the earth, yet we tend to regard them only as infrastructure for human convenience. While roads are so ubiquitous they're practically invisible to us, wild animals experience them as entirely alien forces of death and disruption. In Crossings, environmental journalist Ben Goldfarb travels throughout the United States and around the world to investigate how roads have transformed our planet. A million animals are killed by cars each day in the US alone, but as the new science of road ecology shows, the harms of highways extend far beyond roadkill.
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Great book, but narration doesn’t fit.
- By Anonymous User on 09-22-23
By: Ben Goldfarb
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The Lost Art of Reading Nature's Signs
- By: Tristan Gooley
- Narrated by: Jeff Harding
- Length: 12 hrs and 25 mins
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The ultimate guide to what the land, sun, moon, stars, trees, plants, animals, sky and clouds can reveal - when you know what to look for. Includes over 850 outdoor clues and signs. This top 10 best seller is the result of Tristan Gooley's two decades of pioneering outdoors experience and six years of instructing, researching and writing. It includes lots of outdoor clues and signs that will not be found in any other book in the world.
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not quite
- By Paul in Tucson on 01-21-20
By: Tristan Gooley
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The Nature of Oaks
- The Rich Ecology of Our Most Essential Native Trees
- By: Douglas W. Tallamy
- Narrated by: Adam Barr
- Length: 4 hrs and 16 mins
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Oaks sustain a complex and fascinating web of wildlife. The Nature of Oaks reveals what is going on in oak trees month by month, highlighting the seasonal cycles of life, death, and renewal. From woodpeckers who collect and store hundreds of acorns for sustenance to the beauty of jewel caterpillars, Tallamy illuminates and celebrates the wonders that occur right in our own backyards. The Nature of Oaks will inspire you to treasure these trees and to act to nurture and protect them.
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Inspirational
- By Kaysi12 on 07-22-22
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- Amazon Customer
- 03-04-23
Such a wonderful book
This book takes me onto the forest with new eyes. I have always loved the forest and this book explains why.
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- Amazon Customer
- 03-12-23
Trees - there is a wondrous journey to take
Thoughtfully written. The narrator fits perfectly. The journey and learning that comes with it are priceless. Highly recommend to adults, teens and children. The generations to come might do better than the currents one.
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- Robert Carter
- 01-24-23
Align your heart with nature
Peter once again brings us in with his story and experience in the forest. If you love to learn more about the world around and how we are connected to it
Then this book is perfect for you.
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- Shanscom
- 08-23-22
Good
I liked this book. It was very interesting to learn about the history and future of our relationship with trees as humans.
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- Midia S.
- 01-26-22
This book is fascinating!!!
I wish all of his books where translated to English.
The first book I read from him was The secret live of trees. Tye book for me was unbelievable!!! It made me instantly look at forest and trees with other eyes. It made me question everything I new. It made have a new hobby: bonsais and plants conquered my home .
I bough the children version to illuminate my kid with this knowledge of trees.
With this book I was so exited with everything I was learning from every chapter, that I had to tell to my partner, kid and colleges…. Trees have eyes!!!!
I searched the scientist that he mentioned and the studies to learn more and more about it.
Reading it only once for me is jot enough.
I read the previous one several times, some chapters more than others.
With this one is the same.
It made me desire to meet him, and participate if I’m lucky and he still do it in his guided forest walks.
I so much recommend it!!!
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- Nate Morey
- 03-04-25
Gives a whole new perspective to trees
I have been an avid listener/reader of Peter Wohlleben ever since I picked up his book "The Hidden Life of Trees." His books inspired me to take on an education in biology so I could learn more about these awesome organisms and try to do my part in helping to maintain their ecosystem.
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- JQ
- 12-16-22
Excellent
Great info on trees and how they feel and grow around the world et cet
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- Dawn L Krecicki
- 01-12-23
Beauty in every word
This book was so beautiful written and read. It gave me chills, made me smile, and offered hope.
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- Alec Maure
- 05-11-23
A delightful and cozy time
A gentle old man helps you to love the forest. The narrator is incredibly soothing.
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- Amazon Customer
- 02-02-22
Such Enlightening Information
Mr. Wohlleben is doing the entire planet a tremendous service by showing us that there is an entirely different way that we, as humans, can be and should be experiencing life with our fellow earth mates, the plants. I believe the information shared in this book will, in time, become as mind blowing and ground breaking as Einstein's theory of relativity. There's no reason to believe we're the only type of sentient life on this planet. Fantastic book!
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