Diana BeresfordKroeger born July 25 1944 is an Irish botanist medical biochemist and author born in Islington England and resides near Ottawa Ontario Canada She is known for her extraordinary ability to bring an understanding and appreciation of the scientific complexities of nature to the general public Diana BeresfordKroeger is one of the rare individuals who can accomplish this outwardly simple but inwardly complex and difficult translation from the nonhuman to human realms EO Wilson wrote in the forward to Arboretum America a Philosophy of the Forest by BeresfordKroeger Description above from the Wikipedia article Diana BeresfordKroeger licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia