The Genius of Trees
Author: Rix, Harriet
ISBN: 9781847927835
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK
Year first published: 25 Nov 2025
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback / softback
Plt;bPgt;A mesmerising, mind-expanding global story which shows how trees have learned to use the soil, air, water, plants, fungi, fire, animals and people around them to shape our world - possessing agency beyond anything we might have imagined.Plt;/bPgt;
Plt;bPgt;Plt;iPgt;The Genius of Trees Plt;/iPgt;Plt;/bPgt;Plt;bPgt;tells Plt;/bPgt;Plt;bPgt;a mind-expanding global story revealing Plt;/bPgt;Plt;bPgt;the inventive and astonishing ways trees learned to shape our natural world.Plt;/bPgt;Plt;BRPgt;Plt;BRPgt;Over hundreds of millions of years, from prehistoric forests to the trees around us today, we see trees using fire as a reproductive tool, harnessing large mammals to spread their seeds (but poisoning smaller, less useful mammals), and splitting rock to create fertile ground in barren landscapes.Plt;BRPgt;Plt;BRPgt;Because trees, we discover, manipulate fundamental elements, plants, animals, bacteria, fungi, and even humankind to achieve their ends. From the laurel cloud-forests of the Canary Islands to the magnificent sex-shifting oaks of Iraq, from the giant sequoias of California to the carbon-spinning junipers of the Pakistan-Afghanistan border P#8211; trees sculpt their environments.Plt;BRPgt;Plt;BRPgt;At once transporting and expert, this profoundly original exploration of the science of trees is a startlingly new way of understanding these glories of our natural world.Plt;BRPgt;Plt;BRPgt;Plt;iPgt;The Genius of TreesPlt;/iPgt; gives us hope for the future. It enables us to see trees, for the first time, not as victims but as agents of change in a grand ecological narrative P#8211; and as leading actors in the great drama of life on earth.
ISBN: 9781847927835
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK
Year first published: 25 Nov 2025
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback / softback
Plt;bPgt;A mesmerising, mind-expanding global story which shows how trees have learned to use the soil, air, water, plants, fungi, fire, animals and people around them to shape our world - possessing agency beyond anything we might have imagined.Plt;/bPgt;
Plt;bPgt;Plt;iPgt;The Genius of Trees Plt;/iPgt;Plt;/bPgt;Plt;bPgt;tells Plt;/bPgt;Plt;bPgt;a mind-expanding global story revealing Plt;/bPgt;Plt;bPgt;the inventive and astonishing ways trees learned to shape our natural world.Plt;/bPgt;Plt;BRPgt;Plt;BRPgt;Over hundreds of millions of years, from prehistoric forests to the trees around us today, we see trees using fire as a reproductive tool, harnessing large mammals to spread their seeds (but poisoning smaller, less useful mammals), and splitting rock to create fertile ground in barren landscapes.Plt;BRPgt;Plt;BRPgt;Because trees, we discover, manipulate fundamental elements, plants, animals, bacteria, fungi, and even humankind to achieve their ends. From the laurel cloud-forests of the Canary Islands to the magnificent sex-shifting oaks of Iraq, from the giant sequoias of California to the carbon-spinning junipers of the Pakistan-Afghanistan border P#8211; trees sculpt their environments.Plt;BRPgt;Plt;BRPgt;At once transporting and expert, this profoundly original exploration of the science of trees is a startlingly new way of understanding these glories of our natural world.Plt;BRPgt;Plt;BRPgt;Plt;iPgt;The Genius of TreesPlt;/iPgt; gives us hope for the future. It enables us to see trees, for the first time, not as victims but as agents of change in a grand ecological narrative P#8211; and as leading actors in the great drama of life on earth.
