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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

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

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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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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)

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Well, I'm clearly in the vast minority here, but I'm just not enjoying this book enough to push through and finish it. There have been a couple of chapters that I've found pretty interesting, but they've been few and far between, and at times I've found myself feeling pretty skeptical about what he's describing (for instance the entire chapter where he decides to take all of his clothes off in the middle of winter to see what animals feel in the cold, and it somehow doesn't occur to him until

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Great read. The Forest UnseenDavid George Haskel begins the book with a description of Tibetan Monks making a sand painting, a Mandala, to which he compares his own exploration of a one square meter patch of an old growth forest, on property owned by the University of the South. His description of the small bit of land as a Mandala is more than an interesting metaphor. Like the sand painting of the monks, his patch of old growth forest was a place of observation and contemplation, from which his

The premise of this most excellent natural history of a forest is that the author stakes out a small circle in the woods, say about 4-6 feet across, in a tiny tiny (but one of the only left, sigh) old growth forest remnant in eastern tennessee. He goes out everyday for a year and just sits there observing the plants and animals. Of course that is a bit of a simplification as he discussed things like the lifecycle of salamanders and butterflies and migrating tufted titmice and deer and hickory

Biologist David Haskell spent a year watching his mandala--a one- square-meter patch of land (and its surroundings) in old-growth Tennessee forest. This book is his observations and musings. Each chapter is marked by his visiting date to the mandala. Topics can be trees, herbaceous plants, birds, insects, salamanders, coyotes, rains and winds, sounds, seasons' change, or underground growth (fungi, roots and worms).The Forest Unseen is a delightful read, one of the best nature writings I have

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

TODO full review:i The Forest Unseen is a ponderous book written by naturalist David George Haskell about his year-long visits to a small patch of old-growth forest in Tennessee, USA. Through careful description, astute analysis, deep knowledge, and simply care about the forest, Haskell makes the reader get interested in the forest and want to see it first-hand. I love this book.+++ There are 40-ish visits, so 40-ish subjects to meditate about. The description is sometimes lyric, sometimes