The Power of Trees: How Ancient Forests Can Save Us If We Let Them

Peter Wohlleben

Apr 2023 · Bolinda · Narrated by Mike Grady

About this audiobook

Trees can survive without humans, but we can't live without trees. Even if human-caused climate change devastates our planet, the trees will return – as they do, always and everywhere, even after ice ages, catastrophic fires, destructive storms and deforestation. It would just be nice if we could be around to see them flourish. The Power of Trees is forester Peter Wohlleben's follow-up to The Hidden Life of Trees, a New York Times bestseller that sold millions of copies worldwide. The Power of Trees is as fascinating and eye-opening as it is trenchant in its critique: on the one hand, Wohlleben describes astonishing discoveries about how trees pass knowledge down to succeeding generations and their ability to survive climate change; on the other, he is unsparing in his criticism of those who wield economic and political power – who plant trees exclusively for the sake of logging and virtue-signalling, even as they ruthlessly exploit nature. The Power of Trees is a love letter to the forest and a passionate argument for protecting nature's boundless diversity – not only for the trees, but also for ourselves.

About the author

Peter Wohlleben spent over twenty years working for the forestry commission in before leaving to put his ideas of ecology into practice. He now runs an environmentally friendly woodland in Germany, where he is working for the return of primeval forests. He is the author of numerous books about trees

Mike Grady is an actor and published audiobook narrator. He is probably best known for his comedy roles in films and TV. In films he can be seen in Citizen Smith (1977), Last of the Summer Wine (1973) and The Return of the Pink Panther (1975), and his voice can be heard in popular children’s series Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends as Sir Robert Norramby.