
A world expert on how trees chemically affect our environment, Diana Beresford-Kroeger has woven together ecology, ethnobotany, horticulture, spirituality, science & alternative medicine in The Global Forest to capture their enormous significance to us
- & our future. Trees absorb pollutants from the ground, comb particulates from the air & house beneficial insects. But what they do chemically in the environment is something we're only beginning to underst&. Trees not only breathe & communicate; they also reproduce, provide shelter, medicine & food, & each of these forty interlocking essays picks out a different aspect of the life of the forest, explains it & then shows why it is so vitally important. This is a truly unique, & mind-opening work, combining the precision of a scientist with the lyricism of a poet, Diana Beresford-Kroeger has written an unforgettable work of natural history that shows how we really can save the Earth, one tree at a time.