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A review by anteus7
Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest by Suzanne Simard
5.0
I learned so much from reading this book. Forests are so much more connected than I ever knew. I knew that certain species of trees, such as birch, connect underground via roots to share resources like water and nutrients, but forest plant life reciprocity goes much deeper than that and crosses species boundaries in ways that are similar to how we nurture our own communities.
I was blown away. I read Richard Powers's Overstory and learned about how connected trees of the same species are to each other, even miles away from one another, and of how integral trees, especially older trees, are to their environments, how many different things rely on them for survival, but Simard's stories about her research, the experiments she designed and performed, are changing how I view trees. That leads me to think differently about how we are using and should use our natural resources--wood being one of them.
This makes me want to learn more about mycorrhizal fungi. I'm glad that Simard provided a bibliography of a kind in her book!
I was blown away. I read Richard Powers's Overstory and learned about how connected trees of the same species are to each other, even miles away from one another, and of how integral trees, especially older trees, are to their environments, how many different things rely on them for survival, but Simard's stories about her research, the experiments she designed and performed, are changing how I view trees. That leads me to think differently about how we are using and should use our natural resources--wood being one of them.
This makes me want to learn more about mycorrhizal fungi. I'm glad that Simard provided a bibliography of a kind in her book!