44 Quotes by Peter Wohlleben

La ciencia es contraria a la sensibilidad de los animales hasta que ésta ya no pueda negarse. ¿No sería mejor argumentar, por si acaso, lo contrario, para no maltratar innecesariamente a los animales?

So many questions remain unanswered. Perhaps we are poorer for having lost a possible explanation or richer for having gained a mystery. But aren't both possibilities equally intriguing?

Unfortunately, researches are only peripherally interested in the thousands of species discovered so far and given unpronounceable Latin names. Countless more species are waiting in vain to be discovered.

V jediné hrsti lesní půdy je víc živých bytostí než lidí na naší planetě. Jedna plná čajová lžička pojme víc než kilometr houbových vláken.

Trees could solve the problems if people trying to improve things would only allow them to takeover

Trees live in symbiosis with hyphae (fungus/mold roots). A tea spoon of dirt contains kilometers of these roots. One species can spread throughout entire forests over centuries. They exchange nutrients with trees, along with information about insects, drought and other dangers. It's like a 'wood wide web'.

Si de verdad somos la especie más inteligente de este planeta -algo que presupongo-, ¿entonces por qué la ciencia no recorrió hace tiempo el camino inverso? ¿Por qué esforzarse durante años en enseñar tediosos signos a animales de laboratorio, animales cuya capacidad de aprendizaje, de acuerdo con el estado actual de la investigación, es inferior a la nuestra? ¿No sería mucho más sencillo que nosotros mismos empezásemos al fin a aprender el lenguaje animal?

Coniferous forests noticeably reduce the number of germs in the air, which feels particularly good to people who suffer from allergies.

The trees in a forest care for each other, sometimes even going so far as to nourish the stump of a felled tree for centuries after it was cut down by feeding it sugars and other nutrients, and so keeping it alive. Only some stumps are thus nourished. Perhaps they are the parents of the trees that make up the forest of today.