Finding the Mother Tree

Uncovering the Wisdom and Intelligence of the Forest

By: Suzanne Simard

Narrated by: Suzanne Simard

Brought to you by Penguin.

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.

©2021 Suzanne Simard (P)2021 Penguin Audio

Beautiful and so important

Suzanne Simard is a hero of our time. This book is a fantastic blend of science and life, told with humility and kindness. Just what the world needs!

Essential knowledge

Traces the crazy route western culture has taken to understand the sentience of plants. Disconnected from our indigenous roots via colonialism such sacred knowledge lost but found again by an intuitive scientists. What a battle to get it heard over the clamor of capitalism. Exposes a lot of floors in our systems & shows the dangers of ignoring natures wisdom. Wildfires, pest & disease plagues, & more ..all avoidable if we follow natures ecosystem rules & not the man made rules that cater to greed. Well done Suzanne, the world needs more brave people like you that value our mother ( nature) above greed.