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04786aam a2200433 i 4500 001 2045DA9E673311EEBF3E118F48ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20231010010145 008 211208r20212019oru e b 001 0aeng d 010 $a 2021425347 020 $a 9781643261324 020 $a 1643261320 035 $a (OCoLC)1239650348 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDX $d BDX $d OCO $d CLE $d UKMGB $d OCLCF $d GL9 $d OCLCO $d UIB $d SILO 042 $a lccopycat 050 00 $a QK31.B47 $b A3 2021 082 04 $a 580.92 $2 23 100 1 $a Beresford-Kroeger, Diana, $d 1944- $e author. 245 10 $a To speak for the trees : $b my life's journey from ancient Celtic wisdom to a healing vision of the forest / $c Diana Beresford-Kroeger. 264 1 $a Portland, Oregon : $b Timber Press, $c 2021. 300 $a 274 pages ; $c 21 cm 500 $a "Original hardback edition published in 2019 by Random House Canada"--title page verso. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Comfort in a stone -- The yellow box in paints -- To the valley -- No burden for a woman to be educated -- The meaning of my wardship -- The field experiment -- Where are the trees? -- A duty of care -- The science of ancient knowledge -- The sumac flower -- My own work in my own way -- Splitting wodd -- The mother tree -- Philanthropy -- The celtic alphabet of trees. 520 $a "Diana Beresford-Kroeger--a world-recognized botanist and medical biochemist--has revolutionized our understanding of the natural world with her startling insights into the hidden life of trees. In this riveting memoir, she uncovers the roots of her discovers in her extraordinary childhood in Ireland. Soon after, her brilliant mind bloomed into an illustrious scientific career that melds the intricacies of the natural world with the truths of traditional Celtic wisdom" -- $c Back cover. 520 $a "Canadian botanist, biochemist and visionary Diana Beresford-Kroeger's startling insights into the hidden life of trees have already sparked a quiet revolution in how we understand our relationship to forests. Now, in a captivating account of how her life led her to these illuminating and crucial ideas, she shows us how forests can not only heal us but save the planet. When Diana Beresford-Kroeger--whose father was a member of the Anglo-Irish aristocracy and whose mother was an O'Donoghue, one of the stronghold families who carried on the ancient Celtic traditions--was orphaned as a child, she could have been sent to the Magdalene Laundries. Instead, the O'Donoghue elders, most of them scholars and freehold farmers in the Lisheens valley in County Cork, took her under their wing. Diana became the last ward under the Brehon Law. Over the course of three summers, she was taught the ways of the Celtic triad of mind, body and soul. This included the philosophy of healing, the laws of the trees, Brehon wisdom and the Ogham alphabet, all of it rooted in a vision of nature that saw trees and forests as fundamental to human survival and spirituality. Already a precociously gifted scholar, Diana found that her grounding in the ancient ways led her to fresh scientific concepts. Out of that huge and holistic vision have come the observations that put her at the forefront of her field: the discovery of mother trees at the heart of a forest; the fact that trees are a living library, have a chemical language and communicate in a quantum world; the major idea that trees heal living creatures through the aerosols they release and that they carry a great wealth of natural antibiotics and other healing substances; and, perhaps most significantly, that planting trees can actively regulate the atmosphere and the oceans, and even stabilize our climate. This book is not only the story of a remarkable scientist and her ideas, it harvests all of her powerful knowledge about why trees matter, and why trees are a viable, achievable solution to climate change. Diana eloquently shows us that if we can understand the intricate ways in which the health and welfare of every living creature is connected to the global forest, and strengthen those connections, we will still have time to mend the self-destructive ways that are leading to drastic fires, droughts and floods."-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Beresford-Kroeger, Diana, $d 1944- 650 0 $a Botanists $v Biography. 650 0 $a Biochemists $v Biography. 650 0 $a Celts $v Biography. 650 0 $a Forest ecology. 650 0 $a Forests and forestry $x Folklore. 650 0 $a Trees $x Ecology. 650 0 $a Trees $x Folklore. 655 7 $a Autobiographies. $2 lcgft 941 $a 1 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20231010031748.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=2045DA9E673311EEBF3E118F48ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b UIBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search