The Hidden Life of Trees, What They Feel, How They Communicate-Discoveries from a Secret World by ecologist Peter Wohlleben is an interesting look at the inner lives of trees and forests that are so essential to our health and the health of our planet, but in our fast paced world, we mostly take for granted. Wohlleben anthropomorphizes trees to a fault, but his intention is to describe in terms we can understand that they actually do communicate, protect their offspring and neighbors, and even scream when they feel pain.

You will never walk through the forest in the same way again; you will sense the millions of miles of mycelium working as a world wide web, an underground social network, connecting all the trees to each other. A fascinating read that will make you get up and take a walk in the forest.