After a warm international reception, The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate (Discoveries from a Secret World), extends its genus with this brilliant American edition. Author Peter Wohlleben, immediately dispels the static notion of silent trees—revealing their communication networks of scent signals and taste, low humming root systems, and a "wood wide web" of soil fungi that distributes resources and information throughout the forest. Before advocating the reader to consider revising laws currently affecting ecology, Wohlleben tactfully immerses us in chapters that will forever change the way we perceive the species of trees, whose sentience and slower phase of time unearths another dimension quietly sprawling within our midst.