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Balsam Fir

“A forest’s intelligence emerges from many kinds of interlinked clusters of thought. Nerves and brains are one part, but only one, of the forest’s mind.” Bird song in the boreal forest in summer. Recorded next to the balsam fir:

https://davidhaskell.files.wordpress.com/2016/11/balsam-fir-ambient.mp3

 

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“[A] glorious guide to the miracle of life’s sound.” The New York Times Book Review
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“Few nature writers reveal ecological connections with the daring, elegance and authority of David George Haskell … repeatedly surprises and challenges us by the connections he makes” The Irish Times
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