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Original Title:	The Forest Unseen: A Year’s Watch in Nature
ISBN:	067002337X (ISBN13: 9780670023370)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Pulitzer Prize Nominee for General Nonfiction (2013), National Outdoor Book Award for Natural History Literature (2012), PEN/E.O. Wilson Prize for Literary Science Writing Nominee (2013)

The Forest Unseen: A Year’s Watch in Nature Hardcover | Pages: 288 pages

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Title	:	The Forest Unseen: A Year’s Watch in Nature
Author	:	David George Haskell
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 288 pages
Published	:	March 15th 2012 by Viking (first published March 1st 2012)
Categories	:	Nonfiction. Environment. Nature. Science. Natural History. Biology. Ecology

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A biologist reveals the secret world hidden in a single square meter of forest. In this wholly original book, biologist 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. Each of this book’s short chapters begins with a simple observation: a salamander scuttling across the leaf litter; the first blossom of spring wildflowers. From these, Haskell spins a brilliant web of biology and ecology, explaining the science that binds together the tiniest microbes and the largest mammals and describing the ecosystems that have cycled for thousands—sometimes millions—of years. Each visit to the forest presents a nature story in miniature as Haskell elegantly teases out the intricate relationships that order the creatures and plants that call it home. Written with remarkable grace and empathy, The Forest Unseen is a grand tour of nature in all its profundity. Haskell is a perfect guide into the world that exists beneath our feet and beyond our backyards.

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I loved the concept for this book when I bought it. Haskell spends an entire year observing a single square meter of forest. Each chapter has a different focus ranging from the microscopic to charismatic megafauna. However, despite being a fairly short book, this was such a slog. It's been sitting in my currently reading pile for three years now and it's finally time to admit that I don't like it and will never finish it. I think the thing I hate about it the most is that he calls his forest

I really loved this book. Haskell, a biology prof at The University of the South, has sort of cordoned off a square meter of land in an old-growth forest in Tennessee. Several times a week for a year he goes to this "mandala", sits on a rock, and just observes, sometimes up close with a magnifying glass. It is a book you must read slowly, maybe a 4or 5 page segment at a time. I learned so much about so many aspects of plants and animals and Haskell writes like a poet (but not remotely cornily).

How much can you learn about the forest by observing a square meter patch of it (and pretty much only that square meter)? How much could you learn about things beyond the forest, about the overall ecology of the region, the continent, the world, about a variety of concepts in weather, geology, evolution, ecology, botany, and natural selection? Can the universal really be understood by contemplating the infinitesimally small? Borrowing a term from Buddhism, author David George Haskell decided to

Letter I wrote to the author:Ive just finished reading The Forest Unseen. I have slowly savored your book over many weeks, reading one days entry, at most two, at one sitting. I have never read anyone who combined a meditative consciousness with a scientists mind so beautifully. You presented the theme of the interconnectedness of all things so delightfully in so many amazing forms: birds eggs, vultures, lichen, and the roothair-fungus relationship all come easily to mind as examples.Long ago I

2 stars. Such a wonderful concept, underwhelming delivery.Haskell takes a fascinating path to understand nature, and her intricacies. A small patch of land, mandala as he calls it, works in harmony with everything that's present in its vicinity. From a small worm to a big deer, the patch of land and the things that grow are all in strange harmony. The land hums to a tune that catches on and becomes synchronous with forest floor. The flora and fauna of the forest are all aligned - both

You know the feeling that you get when you go to a national park or any forest and just sit there alone, observing, meditating... That's what you experience while reading this book.So Feynman once said:I have a friend who's an artist and has sometimes taken a view which I don't agree with very well. He'll hold up a flower and say "look how beautiful it is," and I'll agree. Then he says "I as an artist can see how beautiful this is but you as a scientist take this all apart and it becomes a dull