The Forest Unseen

The Forest Unseen: A Year's Watch in Nature is a 2012 book written by David G. Haskell.

Summary
The book is divided in 43 short chapters ordered by date and roughly covering a whole year. 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, inspired by the paintings of sand created by Tibetan as a support for meditation.

Awards

 * Winner of the 2012 National Outdoor Book Award for Natural History Literature
 * Winner of the 2013 Reed Environmental Writing Award.
 * Winner of the 2013 National Academies Communication Award for Best Book.
 * Finalist for the 2013 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction.
 * Winner of the 2016 Dapeng Nature Book Award (China).

Translations
As far as late 2017 The Forest Unseen has been translated into ten languages.