The Forest Unseen: A Year's Watch in Nature

“The premise of The Forest Unseen is that the author is a biologist who goes out with a one meter square quadrat, which is a scientific measuring grid. You put it down and see what’s within the square. He took it to a wood near to where he lived and went to look at what he could see in this one meter square regularly throughout the whole year…It’s a book about just looking and looking and being interested in everything. There’s the blossom coming in spring, there are insects—and that would then lead him off into a long explanation about the evolution of insects. It was a very educational nature book. It’s done in a way that made me think, ‘This is achievable. I could do this in one meter square of my garden if I just slow down and am interested in everything.'” Read more...

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