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To Speak For The Trees with Diana Beresford-Kroeger

June 26, 2020 • Verla Fortier • Season 1 • Episode 7

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Episode # 007 DIANA BERESFORD-KROEGER is a world-recognized botanist, medical biochemist and author, whose work uniquely combines western scientific knowledge and the traditional concepts of the ancient world. Her books include The Sweetness of a Simple Life, The Global Forest, Arboretum Borealis, Arboretum America--which won the National Arbor Day Foundation Award for exemplary educational work on trees and forests--Time Will Tell, and A Garden for Life. Her new book is To Speak for the Trees: My Life’s Journey From Ancient Celtic Wisdom To A Healing Vision of the Forest.

Diana Beresford-Kroeger has a feature documentary Call of the Forest: The Forgotten Wisdom Of Trees with a free App that shows you the native trees in your region and its medicinal uses.

The International Handbook of Forest Therapy published by Cambridge University Press, sponsored by the World Health Organization, is where Diana recently contributed her peer reviewed research on trees. Diana Beresford Kroeger's science on trees is now world recognized.

The following is part of the podcast interview with Diana Beresford-Kroeger. Please visit my website Treesmendus.com for a more complete summary of our wonderful one hour conversation. My first question:

Would you please tell us your story and why you wrote To Speak For The Trees?

"I was orphaned as a child in Ireland. When orphaned, nobody going to speak for you. Normally orphans are sent to orphanages".

Diana Beresford-Kroeger was the

For peer reviewed research on how your time spent in green space can change your mindset, balance your nervous system and your heart rate please go to verlafortier.substack.com and check out my books Take Back Your Outside Mindset: Live Longer, Stress Less, and Control Your Chronic Illness and Optimize Your Heart Rate: Balance Your Mind and Body With Green Space