Also by Diana Beresford-Kroeger from University of Michigan Press:
photo © Christian H. Kroeger
page © 2010 Stuart Bernstein Representation for Artists
RECENT PRAISE for The Global Forest:
"On occasion, someone understands a subject so deeply that information is transmuted into wisdom. This book marks one of those occasions—it is rich and hopeful and compelling in a quiet, insistent way."
-Bill McKibben, author of
Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet
"The essays of The Global Forest are a beautiful and poetic tribute to their subject, based on wide-ranging scientific knowledge."
-E.O. Wilson
Professor Emeritus, Harvard University
"Through this compelling series of 40 essays, Beresford-Kroeger builds a continuum that is at once simplistic and profound, a style, daresay, not unlike that found in the texts of man kind's various religions . . . This book is a must-read, especially for those who remain skeptical of the need to beware the evil twins of global warming and climate change."
-Winnipeg Free Press
"A dazzling combination of Dr. Quinn, Captain Planet and Pocahantas . . . Sacred and informative, The Global Forest is equal parts holy book and encyclopedia."
-The Weekly Dig (Boston)
"I have never read anything quite like The Global Forest. It reads like a spinning continuum of a mind-altering walk through the most magnificent forests in the world, looking back into the deepest possible crannies of not-so-distant human history and consciousness while also seeing ahead into the near future of science and consequence, with the hair on the back of one's neck rising, yet looking forward also with candle glimmers of hope and yearning that cannot be vanquished."
-Rick Bass, author of
Winter: Notes from Montana
"She obviously knows what she's talking about and it shows in her newest book, The Global Forest . . . ."
-Orion
"In her Irish-Gaelic storytelling voice, Beresford-Kroeger hooks her audience by writing in a way they can understand. She leads them into this forested world by connecting two seemingly unrelated topics, then laces these two ideas together, exposing her audience to deeper needs: the cry of planet earth and humanity’s responsibility to that cry."
-New World Review
"The book delves into environmental sciences with a very fresh perspective and it is alive with Gaelic traditions . . . I have to say that as I walked to work this morning, I did begin to see the trees with a newfound respect and awe. You could say that's a mission accomplished."
-New Scientist
"Diana Beresford-Kroeger is an unusual breed of scientist whose lyrical writings meld ancient and modern wisdom, ecology and medicine, with an all-abiding passion for her favorite subject: trees."
-Seed
Viking, 2010
CBC Radio 1 INTERVIEW
New York Times PROFILE
Living on Earth PODCAST
Toronto Star INTERVIEW
Winnipeg Free Press REVIEW
Diana Beresford-Kroeger, a botanist, medical biochemist and self-defined "renegade scientist," brings together ethnobotany, horticulture, spirituality and alternative medicine to reveal a path toward better stewardship of the natural world. A precise and poetic writer steeped in Gaelic storytelling traditions gathered from her childhood in Ireland, her books include The Global Forest, Arboretum Borealis: A Lifeline of the Planet, Arboretum America: A Philosophy of the Forest, A Garden for Life and Time Will Tell. In 2010, Diana was inducted as a Wings Worldquest Fellow. She lives in Ontario, Canada, surrounded by her research garden filled with rare and endangered species.
BBC THE FORUM
Particular Books/Penguin UK will publish THE GLOBAL FOREST in April 2011
From Recreating Eden, "The Renegade Scientist" courtesy of Merit Motion Pictures
