Finding the Mother Tree: Uncovering the Wisdom and Intelligence of the Forest
Book formats
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Hardcover No offers
Book short specifications
- Author
- Suzanne Simard
- Pages
- 368
- Publisher
- Allen Lane
- Language
- english
- Release date
- May 4, 2021
- ISBN
- 978-0-241-38934-8
- GTIN
- 9780241389348
- Weight, g
- 629
- Publisher's website
- penguin.co.uk
About
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.