In the foreword to one of her books, Arboretum America, a Philosophy of the Forest, E. O. Wilson wrote, "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".
[1] Beresford-Kroeger was orphaned at a young age and raised in Ireland by a bachelor uncle, Patrick O'Donoghue, who was a noted athlete, chemist, scholar, and bibliophile.
[3] Beresford-Kroeger completed her undergraduate studies at University College Cork (UCC), was graduated first in her year (1963) with a Bachelor of Science first class honours in both botany and medical biochemistry.
[5] Beresford-Kroeger worked as a research scientist at the University of Ottawa and then at the Canadian Department of Agriculture Electron Microscopy Centre, where she discovered cathodoluminescence in biological materials (1972).
Having identified an absence in the scientific community of the ability to present science to the public and the urgent need to address the degradation of nature, she began her career in writing, broadcasting, and lecturing.
[2] Her ideas on medical aerosols have recently been confirmed through rigorous scientific analysis of the clinical trials of Dr. Qing Li and the physics of Dr. Mikael Ehn et al.[11][12] She has served as a scientific advisor to a number of organizations, including the Irish Woodland League, Ecology Ottawa, Hidden Harvest of Ottawa, Canadian Organic Growers, Archangel Ancient Tree Archive, the Acadian Forest Research Centre, and others.