German · b. 1964
Peter Wohlleben is a German forester and author whose international bestseller The Hidden Life of Trees revealed the surprising social and communicative lives of forests.
Peter Wohlleben spent decades as a forester in Germany, where his close observation of woodlands led him to a new appreciation of trees as social, communicating organisms.
His international bestseller The Hidden Life of Trees (2015) draws on science and experience to describe how trees share resources, warn one another of danger, and form communities through underground networks, written with warmth and wonder. He has since written The Inner Life of Animals and other books celebrating the natural world.
Wohlleben is admired for changing how readers see forests, blending scientific insight with affection and accessibility.
by Peter Wohlleben
Forester Peter Wohlleben's international bestseller revealing the secret social life of forests. Drawing on science and decades of observation, he argues that trees communicate, cooperate, support their kin, and form vast underground networks — transforming how we see the woods.
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