Colin Tudge's The Secret Life of Trees How they Live & Why they Matter explores the hidden role of trees in our everyday lives
- & how our future survival depends on them What is a tree? As this celebration of the trees shows they are our countryside; our ancestors descended from them; they gave us air to breathe Yet while the stories of trees are as plentiful as leaves in a forest they are rarely told Here Colin Tudge travels from his own back garden round the world to explore the beauty variety & ingenuity of trees everywhere from how they live so long to how they talk to each other & why they came to exist in the first place Lyrical & evocative this book will make everyone fall in love with the trees around them 'A love-letter to trees' Financial Times ' One of those books you want everyone to have already read' Sunday Telegraph ' Wonderful invaluable & timely Tudge is as illuminating a guide as one could wish for' Daily Mail ' Everyone interested in the natural world will enjoy The Secret Life of Trees I found myself reading out whole chunks to friends' The Times Books of the Year Colin Tudge started his first tree nursery in his garden aged 11 marking his life-long interest in trees Always interested in plants & animals he studied zoology at Cambridge & then began writing about science first as features editor at the New Scientist & then as a documentary maker for the BBC Now a full-time writer he is a Fellow of the Linnean Society of London & visiting Research Fellow at the Centre of Philosophy at the London School of Economics His books include The Variety of Life & So Shall We Reap