The Body Language of Trees: Encyclopedia of Visual Tree Assessment

by Claus Mattheck

book

100 pages, Hardcover

Published March 27, 2015

About the author

Claus Mattheck is a professor for materials science at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). Among other things, he developed the Visual Tree Assessment method for examining trees based on their external appearance.

Reviews

[Treehouseluvr · Rating 5 out of 5]

Finally, an author who likes trees as much as I do! I feel an even deeper connection to Bertha, my tree, after reading this encyclopedia cover-to-cover. Fair warning- this is not for youngsters. The seductive ways of trees inspire desire and fear all at once!

[Conor Flynn · Rating 5 out of 5]

(from the back cover)
This book:
-is a digest of a quarter century of tree research at the Karlsruhe Research Centre (now KIT).
-promotes understanding of the body language of trees.
-explains defect symptoms, their failure, and their sorrows.
-shows fungal fruit bodies as witnesses in court.
-discloses universal forms in animate and inanimate nature.
-saves people from trees and trees from people.

The method of tree inspection described in this book is based on observation of nature and on folk mechanics verified by computerized methods and field studies. It is the basis of many court decisions and is used all over the world.

This book is a handshake of science with friends of trees.