The Forest Unseen: A Year's Watch in Nature

In The Forest Unseen, biologist David George Haskell returns again and again to a single square meter of old-growth Tennessee forest, watching it across a full year. From these repeated visits he draws out the whole living world in miniature, from soil chemistry and slime molds to the flight of birds, in prose that reads like meditation.

A finalist for the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award and the National Academies Best Book Award, and the book that first introduced readers to Haskell's singular way of seeing.

Paperback. Penguin Books.