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

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'A scientific memoir as gripping as any HBO drama series' Kate Kellaway, ObserverA 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.

ISBN:	9780141990286
Publisher:	Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:	Penguin Books
Published date:	03 Mar 2022
DEWEY:	333.7516
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Sales rank:	3337
Number of pages:	345 , 16 unnumbered of plates
Weight:	296g
Height:	129mm
Width:	196mm
Spine width:	25mm

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