The Trees in My Forest by Bernd Heinrich.

3/5 rating. 236 pages.

Book #51 of 2022. Read December 29, 2022.

This book was a foray into Bernd’s woods in Maine.

Bernd has a lot of interesting tidbits and explanations about the habits and growth of many of the trees in his forest. He has a bunch of sketchings of different trees and observations of their growth, seeds, life, and more.

I feel like there’s plenty that I didn’t retain, but if any of it stayed in my head, it should help my tree knowledge immensely (at least comparatively).

If this interests you, it might be worth reading. I definitely didn’t hate this book, but it wasn’t exactly the most entertaining one I’ve read.

Quotes:

“We must heap up a great pile of doing, for a small diameter of being.” Henry David Thoreau

“He who plants a tree plants a hope.” – Lucy Larcom

“What we can’t identify doesn’t even exist for us.”

“In this forest I’ve counted 105 bird species, and each has slightly different habitat requirements. This means that there is habitat complexity. That is what makes it a forest.”

“Even wood itself has evolved independently several times.”

“If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is Nature’s way.” – Aristotle

“Nature becomes arranged because the individuals it contains arrange. They accommodate and adapt.”

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