Books for International Day of Forests

By Coll Rowe | March 20 2024 | Environmental Science

In celebration of International Day of Forests on March 21st, we are sharing books about forests that give insight on trees and solutions for innovation.

The Forest Unseen
The Forest Unseen
A Year's Watch in Nature
David George Haskell
9780143122944
Biologist and author of Sounds Wild and Broken David Haskell uses a one-square-meter patch of old-growth Tennessee forest as a window onto the entire natural world. Visiting it almost daily for one year to trace nature's path through the seasons, he brings the forest and its inhabitants to vivid life.
$18.00 US
Mar 26, 2013
Paperback
288 Pages
Penguin Books
Finding the Mother Tree
Finding the Mother Tree
Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
Suzanne Simard
9780525565994
From the world’s leading forest ecologist who forever changed how people view trees and their connections to one another and to other living things in the forest—a moving, deeply personal journey of discovery.
$18.00 US
Jun 21, 2022
Paperback
384 Pages
Vintage
The Global Forest
The Global Forest
Forty Ways Trees Can Save Us
Diana Beresford-Kroeger
9780143120162
A pioneering scientist writes of the fascinating ecological and pharmaceutical properties of trees, and how mother trees nourish younger trees and help them defend themselves.
$18.00 US
Nov 29, 2011
Paperback
192 Pages
Penguin Books
Forest Bathing
Forest Bathing
How Trees Can Help You Find Health and Happiness
Dr. Qing Li
9780525559856

The definitive–and by far the most popular–guide to the therapeutic Japanese practice of shinrin-yoku, or the art and science of how trees can promote health and happiness.

$27.00 US
Apr 17, 2018
Hardcover
320 Pages
Penguin Life
Lab Girl
Lab Girl
A Memoir
Hope Jahren
9781101873724
National Bestseller
$16.00 US
Feb 28, 2017
Paperback
304 Pages
Vintage
The Songs of Trees
The Songs of Trees
Stories from Nature's Great Connectors
David George Haskell
9780143111306

The author of the The Pulitzer Prize finalist The Forest Unseen visits with nature’s most magnificent networkers—trees.

$19.00 US
Apr 03, 2018
Paperback
304 Pages
Penguin Books

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