Finding the Mother Tree: discovering the wisdom of the forest
(Large Print)
Simard brings us into the intimate world of the trees, in which she brilliantly illuminates the fascinating and vital truths—that trees are not simply the source of timber or pulp, but are a complicated, interdependent circle of life; that forests are social, cooperative creatures connected through underground networks by which trees communicate their vitality and vulnerabilities with communal lives not that different from our own. Simard writes of how trees, living side by side for hundreds of years, have evolved, how they perceive one another, learn and adapt their behaviors, recognize neighbors, and remember the past; how they have agency about the future; elicit warnings and mount defenses, compete and cooperate with one another with sophistication, characteristics ascribed to human intelligence, traits that are the essence of civil societies—and at the center of it all, the Mother Trees: the mysterious, powerful forces that connect and sustain the others that surround them. Simard writes of her own life, born and raised in the rainforests of British Columbia, of her days as a child spent cataloging the trees from the forest and how she came to love and respect them—embarking on a journey of discovery, and struggle. And as she writes of her scientific quest, she writes of her own journey—of love and loss, of observation and change, of risk and reward, making us understand how deeply human scientific inquiry exists beyond data and technology, that it is about understanding who we are and our place in the world, and, in writing of her own life, we come to see the true connectedness of the Mother Tree that nurtures the forest in the profound ways that families and human societies do, and how these inseparable bonds enable all our survival.
Notes
Simard, S. (2021). Finding the Mother Tree: discovering the wisdom of the forest. First Large Print Edition. New York, Random House Large Print.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Simard, S. 2021. Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest. New York, Random House Large Print.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Simard, S, Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest. New York, Random House Large Print, 2021.
MLA Citation (style guide)Simard, S. Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest. First Large Print Edition. New York, Random House Large Print, 2021.
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