The Wood for the Trees: The Long View of Nature from a Small WoodFrom one of our greatest science writers, this biography of a beech and bluebell wood through diverse moods and changing seasons combines stunning natural history with the ancient history of the countryside to tell the full story of the British landscape. The woods are the great beauty of this country A fine forest like beech wood far more beautiful than anything else which we have seen in its vicinity is how John Stuart Mill described a small patch