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A look at German forester Peter Wohlleben's book The Hidden Life of Trees and what it says about how trees communicate. image: https://arbutustree.ca/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/peter-wohlleben.jpg --- [Skip to content](https://arbutustree.ca/tree-talk/do-trees-talk-to-each-other#main-content) [![ART Logo Text with name - colour-on-wh - NEW](https://arbutustree.ca/hs-fs/hubfs/ART%20Logo%20Text%20with%20name%20-%20colour-on-wh%20-%20NEW.jpg?width=118&height=100&name=ART%20Logo%20Text%20with%20name%20-%20colour-on-wh%20-%20NEW.jpg "ART Logo Text with name - colour-on-wh - NEW")](https://www.arbutustree.ca) - [About](https://arbutustree.ca/about) - [Services](https://arbutustree.ca/services) - [Tips](https://arbutustree.ca/tips) - [Tree Talk](https://arbutustree.ca/tree-talk) - [Reviews](https://arbutustree.ca/reviews) - [Contact](https://arbutustree.ca/contact) - ![Newsletter](https://hubspot-no-cache-eu1-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/cta/default/26912127/interactive-255213191394.png) This is a search field with an auto-suggest feature attached. - There are no suggestions because the search field is empty. # Do trees talk to each other? by [Admin](https://arbutustree.ca/tree-talk/author/admin) on July 28, 2025 [Books](https://arbutustree.ca/tree-talk/tag/books) [Botany and Biology](https://arbutustree.ca/tree-talk/tag/botany-and-biology) In his book, *The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate*, German forester and author Peter Wohlleben describes how forest trees have evolved to live in cooperative, interdependent relationships, share water and nutrients, and send distress signals to each other about drought, disease, and insect attacks. 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