Mercury (Hobart) - Magazine

SCIENCE

- SUSAN DOUBLE

The Secret Network of Nature Peter Wohlleben The Bodley Head $29.99

This book completes Peter Wohlleben’s Mysteries of Nature

trilogy. With his beloved woodlands at centre stage, the lives of the creatures and plants within are braided into the network of life that is the Earth’s biosphere. Wohlleben explains some of the myriad complex connection­s between the Earth, plants, animals, insects, birds and climate which underpin the ecosystems that, ultimately, keep our world habitable.

It is at once surprising and heartbreak­ing, inspiring and thought-provoking. One wonders whether the Earth can survive the ravages of the human race, but the author leaves us hoping that it can and it will. This book will make you wonder, think, weep and smile in equal measure, and you will never again pass by a tree without looking up into its magnificen­t canopy.

Read it in a forest, and enjoy.

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