Table of Contents
Introduction 1
1 Why is the Forest Green? 3
2 Giving Your Hearing a Workout in Nature 14
3 Your Gut's Amazing Sense of Smell 18
4 Nature Doesn't Always Taste Good 22
5 Touch Helps Us Think 28
6 Training Your Sixth Sense 31
7 Fear in the Forest 36
8 We Are Better Than We Think 40
9 In Close Contact With Trees 43
10 In the Beginning Was Fire 53
11 Electric Trees 60
12 The Heartbeat of Trees 71
13 When Earthworms Travel 78
14 The Sacred Tree 91
15 The Disappearing Boundary Between Animals and Plants 97
16 The Language of the Forest 111
17 Diving Deep Into the Forest 118
18 First Aid From Nature's Medicine Cabinet 130
19 When a Tree Needs a Doctor 138
20 Everything Under Control? 149
21 Our Longing for an Intact World 152
22 Learning From Children 161
23 The Paradox of City and Country Living 165
24 Trees, Too, Are Followers of Fashion 170
25 The Long, Hard Road Back 175
26 Confronting Climate Change 183
27 Good Things Take Time 192
28 In Search of Both the Future and the Past 202
29 Problems Highlighted by Bialowieza 214
30 Hambi Is Here to Stay 223
31 Strengthening Our Bond With Nature 233
Acknowledgments 237
Notes 240
Index 249