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Diana Beresford-Kroeger : ウィキペディア英語版 | Diana Beresford-Kroeger Diana Bernadette Beresford-Kroeger (born July 25, 1944) is an Irish botanist, medical biochemist and author, born in Islington, England and resides near Ottawa, Canada. (citizenship: Canadian, Irish, English). She is known for her extraordinary ability to bring an understanding and appreciation of the scientific complexities of nature to the general public. "Diana Beresford-Kroeger is one of the rare individuals who can accomplish this outwardly simple but inwardly complex and difficult translation from the non-human to human realms," E.O. Wilson wrote in the forward to ''Arboretum America, a Philosophy of the Forest'' by Beresford-Kroeger.〔Wilson, E.O., 2004. Forward to ''Arboretum America, a Philosophy of the Forest'', University of Michigan Press; ISBN 978-0-472-06851-7〕 ==Early life== Beresford-Kroeger was orphaned at a young age and raised in Ireland by a bachelor uncle who was a noted athlete, chemist, scholar and bibliophile. He nurtured her quest for knowledge and encouraged her to read and discuss everything from Irish poetry, world religions and philosophy to physics and quantum mechanics. She attended private schools in Ireland and England. Her summers were spent in the countryside in West Cork and Kerry.〔''The Sweetness of a Simple Life'', Diana Beresford-Kroeger, Random House; (2013), ISBN 978-0-345-81295-7〕
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