Finding the Mother Tree

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER ΓÇó From the world’s leading forest ecologist who forever changed how people view trees and their connections to one another and to other living things in the forestΓÇöa moving,deeply personal journey of discovery ΓÇ£Finding the Mother Tree reminds us that the world is a web of storiesconnecting us to one another. [The book] carries the stories of treesfungisoil and bears–and of a human being listening in on the conversation. The interplay of personal narrativescientific insights and the amazing revelations about the life of the forest make a compelling story.ΓÇ¥ΓÇöRobin Wall Kimmererauthor of Braiding Sweetgrass Suzanne Simard is a pioneer on the frontier of plant communication and intelligence; her TED talks have been viewed by more than 10 million people worldwide. In thisher first booknow available in paperbackSimard brings us into her worldthe intimate world of the treesin which she brilliantly illuminates the fascinating and vital truths–that trees are not simply the source of timber or pulpbut are a complicatedinterdependent circle of life; that forests are socialcooperative creatures connected through underground networks by which trees communicate their vitality and vulnerabilities with communal lives not that different from our own. Simard writes–in inspiringilluminatingand accessible waysΓÇöhow treesliving side by side for hundreds of yearshave evolvedhow they learn and adapt their behaviorsrecognize neighborscompete and cooperate with one another with sophisticationcharacteristics ascribed to human intelligencetraits that are the essence of civil societies–and at the center of it allthe Mother Trees: the mysteriouspowerful forces that connect and sustain the others that surround them. And Simard writes of her own lifeborn and raised into a logging world in the rainforests of British Columbiaof her days as a child spent cataloging the trees from the forest and how she came to love and respect them. And as she writes of her scientific questshe writes of her own journeymaking us understand how deeply human scientific inquiry exists beyond data and technologythat it is about understanding who we are and our place in the world.