Our green heart : the soul and science of forests

Beresford-Kroeger, Diana 1944- (author.).

Summary: "In this inspiring culmination of Diana Beresford-Kroeger's life's work as botanist, biochemist, biologist and poet of the global forest, she delivers a challenge to us all to dig deeper into the science of forests and the ways they will save us from climate breakdown--and then do our part to plant and protect them. Each of the essays gathered in Our Green Heart show us a slice of the natural world through Diana's unique lens, illuminating the way our health, individually and as a species, is tied to the health of the forest--a tie we ignore at our peril. She maps the science that still needs to be done--there is so much we don't know about the ways trees and forests work--but also, eloquently, shows us the path to survival that her own science has revealed, the "bioplan" or blueprint for the connectivity of life in nature."--

Record details

ISBN: 1039009794
ISBN: 9781039009790
Physical Description: 207 pages ; 22 cm
print
Publisher: [Toronto] : Random House Canada, [2024]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	The red and green kingdoms -- When the land breaks its silence -- The star of nature -- The ancient and the subatomic -- Forest mast -- Forest school -- Hidden in trees -- The magic of the kingnut -- Feed the ocean, hydrate the land -- An entanglement of oaks -- Lessons in Botany -- The wrong trees in the wrong places -- What we still don't understand -- Céile -- Dúchas -- The hundred-acre mistake -- The language of trees -- Forest soil -- Our cosmic umbrella -- Liquid light -- My mother's tree -- The consuming madness of scientists -- The boreal spring -- Forest bathing -- The risks of taking nature's place -- The sound and silence of forests -- The bioplan -- Mission impossible -- Sacred forests -- End piece.
Additional Physical Form available Note:	Issued also in electronic format.