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  • Finding the Mother Tree

  • Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
  • Auteur(s): Suzanne Simard
  • Narrateur(s): Suzanne Simard
  • Durée: 12 h et 13 min
  • 4,7 out of 5 stars (224 évaluations)

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Finding the Mother Tree

Auteur(s): Suzanne Simard
Narrateur(s): Suzanne Simard
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NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • From the world's leading forest ecologist who forever changed how people view trees and their connections to one another and to other living things in the forest—a moving, deeply personal journey of discovery

Finding the Mother Tree reminds us that the world is a web of stories, connecting us to one another. [The book] carries the stories of trees, fungi, soil and bears—and of a human being listening in on the conversation. The interplay of personal narrative, scientific insights and the amazing revelations about the life of the forest make a compelling story.”—Robin Wall Kimmerer, author of Braiding Sweetgrass

Suzanne Simard is a pioneer on the frontier of plant communication and intelligence; her TED talks have been viewed by more than 10 million people worldwide.

In this, her first book, now available in audio, Simard brings us into her world, 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—in inspiring, illuminating, and accessible ways—how trees, living side by side for hundreds of years, have evolved, how they learn and adapt their behaviors, recognize neighbors, 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.

And Simard writes of her own life, born and raised into a logging world 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. And as she writes of her scientific quest, she writes of her own journey, 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.

©2021 Suzanne Simard (P)2021 Random House Audio

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*WINNER of the 2021 Banff Mountain Book Prize in Mountain Environment and Natural History*

*WINNER of the National Outdoor Book Award for Natural History Literature*

*WINNER of the 2022 BC and Yukon Bill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award*

*SHORTLISTED for the 2022 BC and Yukon Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Book Prize*

*SHORTLISTED for the 2021 Science Writers and Communicators of Canada Book Award*

*FINALIST for the 2023 SCWES Book Awards*

INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER

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Vogue's "13 Books to Help You Reconnect with Nature"

Electric Lit’s “7 Books by Women Writers About Humanity’s Relationship to Trees”

“Simard has spent decades with her hands in the soil, designing experiments and piecing together the remarkable mysteries of forest ecology . . . elegantly detailed . . . deeply personal . . . A testament to Simard’s skill as a science communicator. Her research is clearly defined, the steps of her experiments articulated, her astonishing results explained and the implications laid bare: We ignore the complexity of forests at our peril.”The New York Times

“Simard’s memoir describes the intersecting webs of her career and private life that brought her to rewrite not only the forestry canon but our understanding of nature itself. She is an intellectual force whose powerful ideas overshadow her name . . . Like Charles Darwin’s findings, Simard’s results are so revolutionary and controversial that they have quickly worked their way into social theory, urban planning, culture and art. Simard’s work knocked 19th-century notions of inevitable competition off their pedestals. If a forest is a commons where the fate of the weakest is tied to that of the strongest, then we have a lot of rethinking to do.”The Washington Post

“[Simard] shares the wisdom of a life of listening to the forest . . . a scientific memoir as gripping as any HBO drama series.”The Observer

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Couldn't put it down...

I believe things happen when their supposed to and for me, it' is this book...miigwech

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Beautiful!

I will look at the forest through different eyes. Thank you for the incredible work you have done to educate and change behaviours to protect our forests.

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Yas!

If we are going to save this planet everyone needs to read this book. It really opened my eyes to how interconnected we all truly are. Along with cementing the fact that living things aren’t a commodity for capitalism to exploit.

Plus an amazing queer story. It’s super refreshing to tell a story about one’s attraction that isn’t clouded in doubt and shame. As so many of our stories seem to be (mine included). Your amazing Suzanne! Lots of love from a fellow queer nature nerd.

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Suzanne Simard could save us all

If key world leaders would listen and give serious regard the information found in this book we just might have a hope in hell of saving the planet.

Thank you for your life's work Suzanne

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Wonderful story of her life and beautifully told.

Everyone should read this book. Everyone who shares a love of nature, family and the importance of hard work. The author does a great job of explaining her decades of research into a story not just about her but about how each of us know the should of rich plant and ecosystem communications. Thanks for your courage and dedication to complete this great book.

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We can learn from the trees….

This book is an amazing story about a woman’s journey to understand the inner workings of the forest. The parallels to her own life and humanity in general are fantastic

I loved this book and now I’m wondering how I can use this information to better my own annal patch of paradise.

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A must read for anyone who lives near or works in Forrest ecology

For humankind to understand their place in an ecosystem we have to first understand the ecosystem. Suzanne Simard, in this book, both leads us through the sequence of her scientific experimentation and discoveries within forest ecosystems, and also gives us the context of current forest industry practices. She also explores First Nations resource practices before they were disrupted by settlers.

This is truly a book for our times. At first I wondered if it were too much a “woman’s story“ to reach male audiences, but the experience of a woman within an established industry with a male hierarchy is also a very important part of the story. We are living in changing times, and Suzanne’s is a powerful voice. How she came to find and become bold in using that voice is an imperative part of the story.

The more people who read or listen to this book, the more hopeful our chances are for a less destructive future of this beautiful land we are fortunate to live on.

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Excellent book! Should be mandatory reading. Such vital research that contiunes to advance our understanding of the interconnectivity of not only forest ecosystems but how all species on the planet are connected

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So so padded out with pointlessly crap.

While the science is very interesting and important it is so drowned out in this book with pointless crap. The book just goes on and on with stories that I can't imagine why anyone would want to hear about. Why do we care about her roommates grandmother's huckleberry pie recipe? Why do we care about her brothers amateur rodeo career? It is such a slogg to get through ti actually learn about the science she did and her studies. And even then she keeos interrupting her science for pointlessly personal anecdotes about her love life or something or other. To reiterate the science is very interesting so this book is just insufferable to get through.

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Too much Swearing

I stopped listening half way through. It would be fine for a while then another outburst of swearing would come along

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