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David George Haskell ist ein britischer Biologe, Autor und Professor für Biologie an der University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee. Neben wissenschaftlichen Aufsätzen hat er Essays, Gedichte, Zeitungskommentare, sowie die Bücher Das verborgene Leben des Waldes und Der Gesang der Bäume verfasst.

Für Das verborgene Leben des Waldes erhielt er 2013 den National Academies Communication Award in der Kategorie Bestes Buch, und war Finalist für den Pulitzer-Preis/Sachbuch. Haskells zweites Buch, Der Gesang der Bäume, wurde 2018 mit der John Burroughs Medaille für ein besonderes Werk über Naturwissenschaften ausgezeichnet.

Haskell erwarb 1990 seinen Bachelor-Abschluss in Zoologie an der Universität von Oxford und wurde 1996 an der Cornell University in Evolutionsbiologie promoviert . 2014 wurde ihm von der US-amerikanischen John-Simon-Guggenheim-Gedächtnis-Stiftung ein Guggenheim-Stipendium zugesprochen. Wikipedia

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“Our sensitivity to the tone, hue, and intensity of light is bound up with our evolutionary heritage. Even the diversity of our visual abilities may echo our ancestors' ecology.”

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"November 5th — Light," page 206
The Forest Unseen: A Year's Watch in Nature http://theforestunseen.com/ (2012)

“Human artifacts are not stains imposed on nature. Such a view drives a wedge between humanity and the rest of the community of life. A golf ball is the manifestation of the mind of a clever, playful African primate. This primate loves to invent games to test its physical and mental skill. Generally, these games are played on carefully reconstructed replicas of the savanna from which the ape came and for which its subconscious still hankers. The clever primate belongs in this world. … To love nature and to hate humanity is illogical.”

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"August 8th — Earthstar," pages 157-158
The Forest Unseen: A Year's Watch in Nature http://theforestunseen.com/ (2012)

“Storms in the forest have a more primal character than storms playing over tamed urban land. A vigorous cloudburst is exhilarating, a burst of sensory delight with its leafy smells, gray light, and chill. But a full tree-ripping storm pushes the senses beyond exhilaration or thrill, into fear.”

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"November 21st — Twigs," page 218
The Forest Unseen: A Year's Watch in Nature http://theforestunseen.com/ (2012)

“We can find our way back to thoughtful management for the long-term well-being of both humans and forests. But finding this way will require some quiet and humility.”

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"April 2nd — Chainsaw," page 67
The Forest Unseen: A Year's Watch in Nature http://theforestunseen.com/ (2012)

“The skin is impossibly wet, a cloud condensed into animate matter.”

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"February 28th — Salamander," page 41
The Forest Unseen: A Year's Watch in Nature http://theforestunseen.com/ (2012)

“The old "red in tooth and claw" view of the natural economy has to be updated. We need a new metaphor for the forest, one that helps us visualize plants both sharing and competing. … Evolution's engine is fired by genetic self-interest, but this manifests itself in cooperative action as well as solo selfishness. The natural economy has as many trade unions as robber barons, as much solidarity as individualistic entrepreneurship.”

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"December 3rd — Litter," pages 228-229
The Forest Unseen: A Year's Watch in Nature http://theforestunseen.com/ (2012)

“The study of twigs seems esoteric. But this impression is dangerously wrong. Counting back through bud scars, tallying yearly growth, I not only see the struggle among native and foreign trees, I read the ledger of the world's atmosphere.”

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"November 21st — Twigs," page 220
The Forest Unseen: A Year's Watch in Nature http://theforestunseen.com/ (2012)

“When laughing children chase after fireflies, they are not pursuing beetles but catching wonder.When wonder matures, it peels back experience to seek deeper layers of marvel below. This is science's highest purpose.”

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"July 13th — Fireflies," page 139
The Forest Unseen: A Year's Watch in Nature http://theforestunseen.com/ (2012)