Finding the Mother Tree: Uncovering the Wisdom and Intelligence of the Forest

Simard, Suzanne

ISBN 10: 0241389348 / ISBN 13: 9780241389348

Published by Allen Lane, 2021

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Finding the Mother Tree: Uncovering the Wisdom and Intelligence of the Forest
• Publisher: Allen Lane
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0241389348
• ISBN 13: 9780241389348
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Like New
• Weight: 620 grams

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Synopsis

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER

'A scientific memoir as gripping as any HBO drama series' Kate Kellaway, Observer

A dazzling scientific detective story from the ecologist who first discovered the hidden language of trees

No one has done more to transform our understanding of trees than the world-renowned scientist Suzanne Simard. Now she shares the secrets of a lifetime spent uncovering startling truths about trees: their cooperation, healing capacity, memory, wisdom and sentience.

Raised in the forests of British Columbia, where her family has lived for generations, Professor Simard did not set out to be a scientist. She was working in the forest service when she first discovered how trees communicate underground through an immense web of fungi, at the centre of which lie the Mother Trees: the mysterious, powerful entities that nurture their kin and sustain the forest.

Though her ground-breaking findings were initially dismissed and even ridiculed, they are now firmly supported by the data. As her remarkable journey shows us, science is not a realm apart from ordinary life, but deeply connected with our humanity.

In Finding the Mother Tree, she reveals how the complex cycle of forest life - on which we rely for our existence - offers profound lessons about resilience and kinship, and must be preserved before it's too late.