Reviews

• A wonderfully lyrical, yet scientifically rigorous and wide-ranging exploration of the way trees enrich our lives. Importantly, Jake Robinson identifies the biological and psychological imperatives to properly restore our lost forests, and the myriad life forms they encompass. Go sit under a tree and read this book today!
  —Mike Bossley, conservationist and former director of Greenpeace Australia
• Treewilding is a major addition to literature on inter-relationships between people, trees, and forests. It takes a broad sweep through environmental and cultural histories of the forest and impacts of deforestation. The author then looks to future restoration with a context of social and ecological values. The book is an important, innovative, and hugely stimulating contribution that demands to be widely read.
  —Professor Ian D. Rotherham, Advanced Wellbeing Research Centre, Sheffield Hallam University
• I very much enjoyed reading this belter of a book. Timely and important, it is both a paean to the power and beauty of trees and a call to arms. Let trees be thy teachers and this book be your guide.
  —Dr George McGavin, entomologist, broadcaster and President of the Dorset Wildlife Trust
• Electrifying and insightful! With personal anecdotes and scientific rigour, Robinson charts our course to a more symbiotic existence with forests. Like the dendritic branching structures it so beautifully describes, Treewilding takes us on a journey through time, revealing the relationship between humans and trees is both ancient and complex - one that we break at our peril.
  —Tim Jarvis, adventurer and environmental scientist
• A characterful and informative exploration. —Tristan Gooley, author of How to Read a Tree
• There has never been a more important time for the world to understand trees.
  —Bruce Pascoe, author of Dark Emu
• Treewilding is captivating. Each one of us senses a powerful connection with the nature that shines all around us, even if we cannot articulate it. Jake does so beautifully in this wonderful book.
  —Ben Goldsmith, environmentalist and author of God is an Octopus
• Robinson depicts precisely and gracefully how trees and forests are interconnected with each other and with the world, from the smallest to the largest scale, in imaginable and unimaginable ways. The book is, while being scientifically thorough, an invitation to sense, feel and appreciate this interconnectedness... it is impossible to be unenthusiastic about this wonderful book.
  —Hanna Bjørgaas, author of Secret Life of the City
• In clear and enthusiastic prose, Robinson covers a diversity of topics including agroforestry, soil microorganisms, and the perils of greenwashing, with space left over for diverting forays into the ‘wood wide web’ controversy and plant cognition.
  —Chantal Lyons, Inkcap Journal
• Treewilding effortlessly integrates current theories with fresh insights and consolidates strands of research into a coherent narrative that should encourage researchers to come up with better ways to help forests. It is an enlightening journey for anyone interested in the science of nature.
  —Debraj Manna, Nature