#suzanne simard

[melobluelights]

I read “Finding the Mother Tree” by Suzanne Simard and cried after because trees are caring and intelligent organisms just like us with families and communities. They’re just like us :( And I have that we don’t treat them as such :(

[haveyoureadthisbook-poll]

Have you read Finding the Mother Tree by Suzanne Simard (2021)?

yes

no

I've read parts of it

I've never heard of it

Voting ended onSep 18, 2024

[the-hearth-and-the-wild]

Such a marvel, the tenacity of the buds to surge with life every spring, to greet the lengthening days and warming weather with exuberance, no matter what hardships were brought by winter.

Suzanne Simard, Finding the Mother Tree

[whilereadingandwalking]

If you read The Overstory by Richard Powers, I recommend Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest by Suzanne Simard, a memoir by the actual woman who discovered that trees communicate.

[mosswolf]

enjoying finding the mother tree by suzanne simard so far!! if you're interested in a really thorough look at logging communities, plantation replanting regimes and the role of mycorrhizal fungi plays in tree growth in various areas of canada i definitely recommend it it's very interesting

[finhere]

Was not expecting the “wood wide web” reference in the episode notes for the Last of Us. Wonder what Suzanne Simard thinks of the fungal networks being the villain

[rjzimmerman]

Four minute video from Suzanne Simard, from British Columbia and the author of the book, “Finding the Mother Tree.” I haven’t read this book yet, but will. A lot of books have been written lately, some more credible than others, about how trees communicate. I’ve been convinced.

From the Center for Humans & Nature: “Her concept of ‘mother trees' helped inspire James Cameron’s blockbuster movie ‘Avatar,'and she was a model for one character in Richard Powers’ Pulitzer Prize-winning novel ‘The Overstory.’”

[indizombie]

Suzanne Simard, an ecologist at the University of British Columbia, has found that there are family relationships between trees and that, through their roots and fungus, they communicate with each other and shuffle resources around. Author and researcher Diana Beresford Kroeger has argued that the abundant aerosols that trees emit, such as terpenes and limonenes, are natural antibiotics, antivirals and chemo-preventatives that help keep the natural world – including humans – healthy.

Jim Robbins, ‘The genetic power of ancient trees’, BBC