The Wisdom of the Forest. In Search of the Mother Tree and the Mysterious Connection of All Living Things

Simard introduces us to her world, an intimate world of trees, in which she brilliantly reveals captivating and vital truths: trees are not just a source of timber or cellulose, but a complex, interdependent cycle of life; that forests are social, collaborative beings, connected by underground networks through which trees communicate their viability and vulnerability to social life, not so different from our own.

In this amazing and inspiring narrative, the author tells us how trees that live side by side for centuries develop, how they learn and adapt, how they compete with neighbors and cooperate with one another, how they are similar to humans, and how, like the structure of human society, the center of their society is the Mother Trees — powerful forces that connect and support all those around them.