Get Your Free Audiobook
-
Finding the Mother Tree
- Uncovering the Wisdom and Intelligence of the Forest
- Narrated by: Suzanne Simard
- Length: 12 hrs and 13 mins
Failed to add items
Add to cart failed.
Add to wishlist failed.
Remove from wishlist failed.
Follow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
New to Audible Prime Member exclusive: 2 credits with free trial
Finding the Mother Tree
Buy Now for ₹888.00
No valid payment method on file.
We are sorry. We are not allowed to sell this product with the selected payment method
Publisher's Summary
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.
What listeners say about Finding the Mother Tree
Average Customer RatingsReviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars
-
Story5 out of 5 stars
- Pallabi Chakraborty
- 14-03-24
passion and resilience
the emotional journey of the author taught about her resilience and passion resilience and passion. it truly represents the importance of studying the intricate relationship between social and ecological systems.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars
-
Story5 out of 5 stars
- Pragya Singhal
- 19-01-23
Trees have agency, and they live in a society
I had already heard the authors podcast years before i got my hands on this book. from other comments and reviews, i had also gone through the ted talk videos before starting the book. This book is not about what I already knew, but it's how a person, who came from a family of lumber jacks, decided to study trees and come to this beautiful conclusion about mother trees. It's her journey, her experiments, the challenges, the family, the mistakes, the recovery and then progress. For someone who is trying it set it all up, it would be great as a reference book, but i was struggling with the visualization. I still continued to read because after every few pages i would be informed an amazing fact about the trees helping each other, caring for young ones, supporting with their wisdom and showing the proof through the experiment. The last chapter had me in tears because the author had rightly questioned that how western science looks at everything from an independent microscopic element and then builds the whole. Whereas the old age indigenous knowledge looks at everything as a whole and how it is interconnected and supported. What i liked was that there is hope for our earth if humans can mend their ways, because mother nature is also resilient to adapt and heal.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
1 person found this helpful