Kate’s 2¢: “The forest unseen: a year’s watch in nature” by David George Haskell

“The forest unseen: a year’s watch in nature”  by David George Haskell

Kate’s 2¢: There is a plethora of in-depth biographies of authors and reviews of their books, that state the title, author, published date, and genre; as well as,     describing what the book is about, setting, and character(s), so, Kate’s 2¢ merely shares my thoughts about what I read.  I’m just saying…

Driving by in a car gives you a macro glimpse of things. Riding a bicycle gives you a micro look at things. Sitting, watching a patch the size of a hula hoop gives you a nano view of things.

“The forest unseen: a year’s watch in nature” takes us on a detailed look into several hula hoop sized patches around the world. The descriptions of the flora and fauna Haskell shares with us are introspective, wonderful, miniscule vignettes  of what he observes, and almost poetic with his prose.

The narrator, Barry Bernson does justice to the prose with his narrating.

I wish we could all sit and contemplate the small patch of this wonderful world. As it has been said: Stop and smell the roses.

From:  https://dghaskell.com

David George Haskell is an British-born American biologist, author, and professor of biology at Sewanee: The University of the South, in Sewanee, Tennessee.

“Haskell proves himself to be the rare kind of scientist Rachel Carson was when long ago she pioneered a new cultural aesthetic of poetic prose about science…a resplendent read in its entirety” Maria Popova in Brain Pickings Interviews in Outside Magazine and Yale Environment 360.

From NLS/BARD/LOC:

The forest unseen: a year’s watch in nature DB74368

Haskell, David George. Reading time: 10 hours, 6 minutes.

Read by Barry Bernson.

Nature and the Environment

Biology professor recounts what he learned when–guided by the metaphor of the mandala, the contemplation of a small part of something to understand the whole–he studied a one-meter circle of old-growth Tennessee woodlands for a year. Details the changing seasons’ effects on the forest’s plants and animals. 2012.