| The Forest Unseen | |
| Author: | David G. Haskell |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
| Subject: | Ecology |
| Publisher: | Viking Books |
| Pub Date: | 2012 |
| Media Type: | Print (Hardcover and Paperback) and e-book |
| Pages: | 288 |
| Isbn: | 978-0-14-312294-4 |
The Forest Unseen: A Year's Watch in Nature is a 2012 book written by David G. Haskell.
The book is divided in 43 short chapters ordered by date and roughly covering a whole year.[1] In each of them the author, which visits almost every day a single square meter randomly chosen of an old-growth forest of Cumberland Plateau (Tennessee), describes what happens to plants, animals and insects living there. These observations give him the opportunity to write not only about the small-scale forest ecology but also on worldwide natural processes. He often calls his small observation field mandala,[2] inspired by the paintings of sand created by Tibetan as a support for meditation.[3]
As far as late 2017 The Forest Unseen has been translated into ten languages.[9]