To Speak for the Trees: My Life's Journey from Ancient Celtic Wisdom to a Healing Vision of the Forest

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Diana Beresford-Kroeger - a world-recognised botanist and medical biochemist - has revolutionised our understanding of the natural world with her startling insights into the hidden life of trees. In this riveting memoir, she uncovers the roots of her discoveries in her extraordinary childhood in Ireland. Soon after, her brilliant mind bloomed into an illustrious scientific career that melds the intricacies of the natural world with the truths of traditional Celtic wisdom. To Speak for the Trees uniquely blends the story of Beresford-Kroeger's incredible life and her outstanding achievement as a scientist. It elegantly shows us how forests can not only heal us as people but can also help save the planet. AUTHOR: Diana Beresford-Kroeger is a world-recognized botanist, medical biochemist, and author, whose work uniquely combines western scientific knowledge and the traditional concepts of the ancient world. Her books include The Sweetness of a Simple Life, The Global Forest, Arboretum Borealis, Arboretum America, Time Will Tell, and A Garden for Life. Currently she is advocating on behalf of an ambitious global bioplan that encourages ordinary people to develop a new relationship with nature and to restore the global forest. Cover Adcard Title page Copyright Dedication Contents Epigraph Introduction Part I Comfort in a Stone The Yellow Box of Paints To the Valley No Burden for a Woman to Be Educated The Meaning of My Wardship The Field Experiment Where Are the Trees? A Duty of Care The Science of Ancient Knowledge The Sumac Flower My Own Work in My Own Way Splitting Wood The Mother Tree Philanthropy of the Mind Part II The Celtic Alphabet of Trees A Pine Ailm B Birch Beith C Hazel Coll D Oak Dair E Aspen Eabha F Alder Fearn G Ivy Gort H Hawthorn Huath I Yew Iúr Ng Rush Brobh L Rowan Luis M Blackberry Muin N Ash Nion O Gorse Aiteann Q Apple Úll R Elder Ruis S Willow Sail T Holly Tinne U Heather Úr Z Blackthorn Straif Acknowledgments A Reading List Index About the Author