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Our Green Heart

By: Diana Beresford-Kroeger
Narrated by: Diana Beresford-Kroeger
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AN INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER

In this inspiring culmination of Diana Beresford-Kroeger’s life’s work as a botanist, biochemist, biologist and poet of the global forest, she delivers a challenge to us all to dig deeper into the science of forests and the ways they will save us from climate breakdown—and then do our part to plant and protect them.

As the last child in Ireland to receive a full Druidic education, Diana Beresford-Kroeger has brought an unusual and ancient holistic attitude to the science of trees, which has led her to many fresh insights into how closely we are tied to one another and to the natural world. Her influential message is to pay rapt attention to trees, because they are the green heart of the living world. Forests are our lungs, our medicine, our oxygen and the renewal of our soil. Planting the right trees in the right places, protecting the last virgin forests and working to create new ones is our best means to ensure a future for our children and grandchildren on this burning earth.

Each of the essays gathered in Our Green Heart show us a slice of the natural world through Diana’s unique lens, illuminating the way our health, individually and as a species, is tied to the health of the forest—a tie we ignore at our peril. She maps the science that still needs to be done—there is so much we don’t know about the ways trees and forests work—but also, eloquently, shows us the path to survival that her own science has revealed, the “bioplan” or blueprint for the connectivity of life in nature. If we realize that even the flowerpot on our doorstep is a natural habitat, and plant it according to its bioplan, we will be aiding and abetting life rather than destroying it.

©2024 Diana Beresford-Kroeger (P)2024 Random House Canada
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Critic reviews

“Ethereal. . . . [Diana Bereseford-Kroeger’s] discussions weave together botany, physics and personal reflections with aplomb. . . . Readers willing to accept a dash of the mystical with their science will be entranced.” Publishers Weekly

“In its captivating tone, [Beresford-Kroeger’s] latest book consists of essays about nature, spirituality, and climate change. She dances artfully between scientific and poetic language [and] her engrossing storytelling ability shines.” —Literary Review of Canada

“The world’s forests may lack a voice of their own, but they have a powerful ally in Diana Beresford-Kroeger. . . . Our Green Heart is the latest tool in Beresford-Kroeger’s arsenal for galvanizing people to combat climate change by supporting trees.” —Zoomer

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The blend of scientific knowledge, wisdom and poetic expression of this writer was both powerful and profound.Her style reminds me of Father Thomas Berry.

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