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Woods of wisdom: Words around trees, beautifully woven

By Kayleigh Lawrence

26 May 2010

NO ONE could sensibly deny that trees play an important role in the environment. In The Global Forest, Diana Beresford-Kroeger takes this one step further and argues that trees are the very foundation that all life is reliant upon.

The author’s veneration and awe of the natural world began when she was a child, growing up on her parents’ farm in Ireland. “It is out of this child, this field with its golden furze, that this book was born.”

Employing the story-telling methods of an Irish Seanchaí – “the keeper of legends and oral traditions” – the book is comprised…

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