The well regarded nature book The Hidden Life of Trees by German forester and environmentalist Peter Wohlleben, has been mentioned in these pages before.
With the existence of the “wood wide web”, an underground network of fungi that links the roots of separate trees and lets them communicate chemically and “socially” being well debated and established now - this book gives an insight into the life of trees that many of us ignore.
Tree-hugging gets a bit of a bad rap these days, with all its new age connotations, and celebrity tree huggers too.
But wrapping one’s arms around the cortex of the nearest large tree could be just the thing apparently to help bust stress in these busy and precarious times we live in.
