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To Speak for the Trees
- My Life's Journey from Ancient Celtic Wisdom to a Healing Vision of the Forest
- Narrated by: Diana Beresford-Kroeger
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
- Categories: Biographies & Memoirs, Professionals & Academics
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Publisher's Summary
2019 Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing Award
Canadian botanist, biochemist, and visionary Diana Beresford-Kroeger's startling insights into the hidden life of trees have already sparked a quiet revolution in how we understand our relationship to forests. Now, in a captivating account of how her life led her to these illuminating and crucial ideas, she shows us how forests can not only heal us but save the planet.
When Diana Beresford-Kroeger - whose father was a member of the Anglo-Irish aristocracy and whose mother was an O'Donoghue, one of the stronghold families who carried on the ancient Celtic traditions - was orphaned as a child, she could have been sent to the Magdalene Laundries. Instead, the O'Donoghue elders, most of them scholars and freehold farmers in the Lisheens valley in County Cork, took her under their wing. Diana became the last ward under the Brehon Law. Over the course of three summers, she was taught the ways of the Celtic triad of mind, body, and soul. This included the philosophy of healing, the laws of the trees, Brehon wisdom, and the Ogham alphabet, all of it rooted in a vision of nature that saw trees and forests as fundamental to human survival and spirituality.
Already a precociously gifted scholar, Diana found that her grounding in the ancient ways led her to fresh scientific concepts. Out of that huge and holistic vision have come the observations that put her at the forefront of her field: the discovery of mother trees at the heart of a forest; the fact that trees are a living library, have a chemical language and communicate in a quantum world; the major idea that trees heal living creatures through the aerosols they release and that they carry a great wealth of natural antibiotics and other healing substances; and, perhaps most significantly, that planting trees can actively regulate the atmosphere and the oceans, and even stabilize our climate.
This book is not only the story of a remarkable scientist and her ideas, it harvests all of her powerful knowledge about why trees matter, and why trees are a viable, achievable solution to climate change. Diana eloquently shows us that if we can understand the intricate ways in which the health and welfare of every living creature is connected to the global forest, and strengthen those connections, we will still have time to mend the self-destructive ways that are leading to drastic fires, droughts, and floods.
What the critics say
“In her youth in Ireland, Diana Beresford-Kroeger received an extraordinary and unique education in traditional Celtic plant lore. At university in Canada, she specialized in biochemistry and merged what she learned and observed into her signature studies of trees, augmented by First Nation forest wisdom. This autobiography of learning ways to heal the damaged earth and break the tightening grip of climate crisis offers a rational and inclusive way to keep our future.” (Annie Proulx, author of The Shipping News)
“Diana Beresford Kroeger has given readers a rare gift: an inspiring tale about trees, trauma and the very purpose of life. Her Celtic story works on you like a good walk in a pine forest: You can’t help but feel invigorated afterwards.” (Andrew Nikiforuk, award-winning journalist)
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- Anna Mcintyre
- 2020-01-30
A beautiful gift
Thank you Diana Beresford-Kroeger for sharing your story and knowledge. What a treat to listen to! The recording is clear and of great quality. There are no bells / whistles / musical interludes. Ms. Beresford-Kroeger's voice is clear and easy to follow. I bought this book on a whim without reading the description properly as I love anything to do with forests. I was unprepared for how her story and knowledge has touched me. I now pledge to learn the Irish Gaelic alphabet and memorise and apply tree knowledge to my own life! If you are fascinated with forests, plants, biology, ancient cultural knowledge and stories of human resilience this book is for you. I can't say enough about it. I am very sad that I reached the end of this book and can't wait to read more from her. A fantastic and generous addition to the library of humanity.
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- hope
- 2019-12-31
Amazing! A must read!
Is the best book I have read and listen to by far in a very long time probably ever as an Irish person it’s wonderful to hear about the lost and colonized world of the Irish if you’re interested in your own roots as an Irish person or as a Pegan I would definitely recommend this book also if you are interested in health foraging and holistic healing this book I would recommend with highest esteem. Thank you Diana for your beautiful work I hope that you continue to share more druid wisdom culture lost and still well alive and theSecrets of our ancestors
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- D. Katay
- 2020-04-17
Excellent Listen
I highly recommend this book for anyone interested in learning more about the old folk ways of Ireland, druidry, herbalism/plant medicines, getting to know and understand the plant peoples and to listen to a beautiful story narrated by the author herself. Moving, insightful, and full of wisdom, this book is up there in my list of books worth having both physical and audio copies of so that I can share it with others. Simply beautiful.
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- Emily
- 2020-05-27
Incredible book, Loved it!
I loved listening to this book, the author did an amazing narration and everything she talks about is fascinating. I am looking forward to listening to it again. Thank you for sharing your words with us Diana!
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- Sara
- 2020-05-04
Profound.
This woman is a true Heroine. Her words, and humble yet powerful offerings and suggestions, could alter the future, for a possiblity of thriving on this blessed planet. Please read this.
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- Kindle Customer
- 2021-01-05
Inspiring
I found this book to be absolutely wonderful. I am deeply grateful to have listened to this, I found it inspiring and I took much to heart.
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- Dallal
- 2020-12-23
love her voice! educational and spiritual
easy to listen to. I love her Irish voice. it adds magic to thecstiry. so information both spiritually and of the natural world.
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- Amazon Customer
- 2020-10-20
Great Listen
An amazing listen and highly recommended for anyone who cares for nature or has an interest in environmental protection and the magical necessity of nature and forests.
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- goodyearnow
- 2020-10-17
earth-bound appreciation
historical, informative and enlightening. we need more of this style of education in today's world
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- fab
- 2020-10-16
loved listening to the author
So loved it and eye opening. I will be listening for more from Diana Beresford Kroeger. her story and narration keeps you hooked, astonished , amazed , angry and teary at times.
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- Anne Milligan
- 2020-07-27
Deeply moving!
I'm not sure I've ever been so taken up by a book in all my life. Listening to it being read, late at night, felt like I was being carried away on an ancient dream of another lifetime and I remembered who I am, and where I've been. I'm not sure that anyone else's experience will be like mine, but I recommend this precious story, from a beautiful soul who has suffered so much, and yet has been gifted to us, for hers and our, healing. So grateful.
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- AJ Hassel
- 2020-07-18
treasure
this book is a true treasure and a must read for us all. trees hold my heart and learning how to support their survival and honor their role in our world is so important. this book gives us so much information to help and knowledge that we should pass on for generations.
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- Penrose
- 2020-01-26
Ancient Wisdom Growing on Living Land
In her charming Irish voice DB-K reads her magical life's story with the resulting compendium of botanical hea!ing know!edge coming through her lineage of Celtic and Druidic bloodlines, p!us a lifetime of diligent scientific study, research, and experimentation. Highly recommended.
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- tara
- 2020-09-10
An absolute gem
Was enthralled with this book from start to finish. The author has such a unique perspective, bringing a magical element to her scientific experience. As an Irish descendent who deeply appreciates both science and folklore, this book really spoke to me. She animates the natural world in a way that inspires a deep appreciation and reverence for nature that will hopefully compel readers to take action towards environmental protection! I purchased both the audible version and the hardcover, as this will be a much referenced book in my library.
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- Amazon Customer
- 2020-09-07
The world needs this
Everyone should read this book and take the advice, planting acorns in my yard tomorrow.
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- Lee
- 2020-07-26
Unique life and sprirt
I am happy the authoress did the narration. She is a generous super intelligent woman who has had many struggles and traumas and has added discoveries to her field of study as well. Learned a lot about forests and why we need ancient trees. She is worthy of a Nobel Prize.
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- Diana
- 2020-12-28
Loved it!
Exuberantly glad I found this book. It was like coming home to an important part inside my soul.
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- DC
- 2020-10-05
Eternal
This books speaks for the trees, for the earth, for all living beings, and for all time. The author tells her own story and no one else could have narrated this story; it is too deeply personal. She has a meaningful, unique and important life full of passionate love for trees, life, and shows us how preserving them is our only way to survive the present/future of climate change. Her passion and strength are ever-present in her narration, as we see how she grew from a neglected child into a woman of great power. If you love, as I do, seeing how the ancient knowledge and the new scientific discoveries are simply different ways of understanding the same truths, then this is the book for you. May you enjoy it as fully as I did.... I must mention that Part 2, the Celtic Ogham Alphabet of trees/plants, is so full of both ancient, practical uses of plants and the new laboratory proof of their efficacy, that now I want a physical copy of the book to use as a reference. But having the Audible version first was a deep pleasure, to listen to the story told in the spoken word, as early cultures always did. Now I must buy two hard copies: one for me and one for my Irish friend who also loves plants.