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Bezig met laden... To Speak for the Trees: My Life's Journey from Ancient Celtic Wisdom to a Healing Vision of the Forestdoor Diana Beresford-Kroeger
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 Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek.  Treebeard_404 | Jan 23, 2024 |   Sometimes it felt like this book wasn't entirely sure what it wanted to be, but even so, moving from chapter to chapter was still compelling. The book isn't told in a wholly linear fashion, and sometimes the focus is more on scientific knowledge, and sometimes it's more on Irish/Celtic wisdom. There's a couple of uncomfortable moments of 'white woman saviour' elements happening when the author makes a point of speaking about the land, and an Indigenous person comes up simply to say they agree with her and 'she speaks with us' - but there's no real effort to promote, centre or name Indigenous voices or peoples of the land she's speaking on behalf of. Beresford-Kroeger's writing style is gentle and easy to read. It's not opaque or dense, and just about anyone can pick this up and enjoy the book. But I do think it needs to be clear that this isn't really a book on Celtic wisdom, it's an autobiography with a few bits and pieces of Celtic knowledge, and a comprehensive section on the Ogham right at the end. The concept of the global bioplan was interesting, though not written with accessibility and disability in mind, and I feel like the subject needs its own book, rather than to be folded into a work that is predominantly an autobiography/memoir. (  ) PiaRavenari | Aug 4, 2023 |  ) PlanCultivateCreate | Aug 8, 2022 | ) GailNyoka | Feb 3, 2021 | Diana Beresford-Kroeger is a force of nature. She began as the seemingly shy child of an English lord and an Irish woman of ancient Celtic nobility, a child not wanted by her mother, and not fought for by her father. By age 11, she was orphaned. As a female orphan in Ireland in the 1950s, she might have been sent to live in a place like the Magdalen Laundries, an orphanage run by the Catholic church where girls (orphans or unwed mothers) earned their keep by doing laundry until they reached the age of emancipation (wasn't that just so nice of the Catholic church?), except she was the daughter of a Lord, and the judge feared trouble if he sent her there. The solution was a bachelor uncle, who took her in but didn't provide much in the way of parental support. Her salvation came from relatives in the countryside, where she spent her summers. These country folk decided to give her the ancient Celtic knowledge, imparted by numerous relatives over a period of three summers. They were the first to make her feel valued and loved, and they saved her. She became strong and resilient, and went on to become a scholar. Her story is infused with Celtic lore, modern science, and the Ogham alphabet, the second oldest written language, after Sanskrit. A whole section of the book, at the end of the memoir, is devoted to explaining each letter of that alphabet. Each letter is tied to a tree or shrub--the forest was sacred to the Celts. She explains how each tree or shrub was used as medicine or food by the ancient Celts, and ties this in with modern botany. After finishing the book, I watched a couple of YouTube videos: one an interview with a Canadian reporter, and the other, a teach-in with Jane Fonda on her program called Fire Drill Fridays (Jane is still an activist, as we all know). Beresford-Kroeger is gentle, erudite, and a teacher with a lovely lilt in her voice. She is still optimistic about saving the planet. She is my new heroine. ( ) fromthecomfychair | Jan 14, 2021 | geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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"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."-- Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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[Audiobook note: B-K reads the book, herself. And this is a good thing. Her lilting delivery makes the whole thing much more personal. However, even played at 125% speed, the delivery was often a bit slow.] (