Diana Bernadette Beresford-Kroeger (born July 25, 1944) is an Irish botanist, medical biochemist and author, born in Islington, England and resides near Ottawa, Ontario, 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.