Penguin Books</br></br>Product Description</br></br><strong> A biologist reveals the secret world hidden in a single square  meter of old-growth forest--a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the Pen/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award?<br /></strong> <p><strong>Look out for David Haskell's new book?? <em>The Songs of Trees: Stories From Nature's Great Connectors</em>?? coming in April of 2017</strong></p> <p>In this wholly original book?? biologist David Haskell uses a one- square-meter patch of old-growth Tennessee forest as a window onto the  entire natural world. Visiting it almost daily for one year to trace  nature's path through the seasons?? he brings the forest and its  inhabitants to vivid life.</p> <p>Each of this book's short chapters begins with a simple observation:  a salamander scuttling a