This article is from the Figaro magazine
Tomorrow, ten years from now, a hundred years from now, if historians still find any interest in our time, they will be able to remember that at the beginning of the twenty-first century, when frantic laboratory technicians were calling for the advent of augmented man, when the spires of cathedrals blazed in the great mechoui of the postmodern fiesta and when kangaroos caught fire in the bush, a book was a great favor in bookstores in the Western world: it was called The Secret Life of Trees. More than a success, it was a phenomenon. Germany had accustomed us to philosophers from the depths of the forests. One of them, more than half a century ago, composed in a clearing in the Black Forest the fiercest criticism of the boarding of the world by technology.
This time the author was not called Martin Heidegger, he was a forester from the Eifel massif, named Peter Wohlleben. He revealed in his work, ordering them very pedagogically...
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