The Forest Unseen is a forest observation notebook, which can be regarded as a natural history classic in recent years. It is also a nature note that combines professional natural observation and humanistic feelings like Aldo Leopold’s famous natural literature A Sand County Almanac. As a popular science book, it has an amazing amount of information, but all kinds of professional theories and terminologies are also interesting in the author’s notes.

In this book, a biologist uses one year as the main line to reveal the secrets hidden in one square meter of the forest for readers in each observation. He uses a small forest as a microcosm of the entire natural world, and vividly shows us the living conditions of this forest and the inhabitants who live in it. The beautiful language of this book makes readers regard the reading process as a grand journey to find the mysteries of nature. The author is like a tour guide, leading everyone to explore the wonderful world that exists under our feet or is hidden in our backyards. There are incredible precision designs of nature and the game of intelligence among living things.

Each chapter of the book begins with a simple observation, such as a salamander hiding in the leaf litter, the first bloom of wildflowers in spring. Through these observations, the author weaves a biological ecological web, explains the scientific perspective that links the smallest microorganisms to the largest mammals, and describes ecosystems that last for thousands or even millions of years. He walks in this forest every day and teases out the complex and subtle relationships among the various plants and animals that call nature their home. Therefore, every visit symbolizes a microcosm of a natural story for him.

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• January 1st—Partnerships
• January 17th—Kepler’s Gift
• January 21st—The Experiment
• January 30th—Winter Plants
• February 2nd—Footprints
• February 16th—Moss
• February 28th—Salamander
• March 13th—Hepatica
• March 13th—Snails
• March 25th—Spring Ephemerals
• April 2nd—Chainsaw
• April 2nd—Flowers
• April 8th—Xylem
• April 14th—Moth
• April 16th—Sunrise Birds
• April 22nd—Walking Seeds
• April 29th—Earthquake
• May 7th—Wind
• May 18th—Herbivory
• May 25th—Ripples
• June 2nd—Quest
• June 10th—Ferns
• June 20th—A Tangle
• July 2nd—Fungi
• July 13th—FirefIies
• July 27th—Sunfleck
• August 1st—Eft and Coyote
• August 8th—Earthstar
• August 26th—Katydid
• September 21st—Medicine
• September 23rd—Caterpillar
• September 23rd—Vulture
• September 26th—Migrants
• October 5th—Alarm Waves
• October 14th—Samara
• October 29th—Faces
• November 5th—Light
• November 15th—Sharp-shinned Hawk
• November 21st—Twigs
• December 3rd—Litter
• December 6th—Underground Bestiary
• December 26th—Treetops
• December 31st—Watching

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