FINDING THE MOTHER TREE...
You will never see a forest - or a patch of ground or sweep of water - the same way again. You will cherish it. ‘’FINDING THE MOTHER TREE - Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest’’ takes our awareness of the precious web of life to a fine tuning. This is a book that explodes our deeply ingrained delusion of separateness from Nature once and for all and, with breathtaking beauty, guides us into the family of all life forms.
Films like ‘’Avatar’’’and novels like Richard Powers’ ''The Overstory’’ have brought the book's illuminations to millions. In its revolutionary revelations, I believe this book ranks with pivotal earlier classics like ‘’The Sea Around Us’’ and ‘’Silent Spring,’’ by Rachel Carson. While at times I found it a bit of a chore getting through all the detailed scientific experiments, Suzanne Simard writes like a novelist. At several points during the narrative I found myself gasping at the miraculous intelligence and compassion of the ‘’tree people’’ as they care for and communicate not only with their direct ‘’offspring’’ but with the extended family of plants and trees of all types around them, exchanging just the right cocktails of water and nutrients through delicate, intricate fungal and root systems, imparting guidance, warning of infestation, preparing for drought, behaving for all intents and purposes like Mothers, like families... like thinking, feeling, sentient beings. Make way in consciousness for more relatives.
The ancient Native American tenet - ‘’We are all related…two-legged, four-legged, feathered, finned, furred, those that crawl in the earth and those that grow from it’’ - has never been more prescient. We now ignore the eternal wisdom of Nature at our mortal peril.
Be grateful this is a bestseller.
Essential reading.
Films like ‘’Avatar’’’and novels like Richard Powers’ ''The Overstory’’ have brought the book's illuminations to millions. In its revolutionary revelations, I believe this book ranks with pivotal earlier classics like ‘’The Sea Around Us’’ and ‘’Silent Spring,’’ by Rachel Carson. While at times I found it a bit of a chore getting through all the detailed scientific experiments, Suzanne Simard writes like a novelist. At several points during the narrative I found myself gasping at the miraculous intelligence and compassion of the ‘’tree people’’ as they care for and communicate not only with their direct ‘’offspring’’ but with the extended family of plants and trees of all types around them, exchanging just the right cocktails of water and nutrients through delicate, intricate fungal and root systems, imparting guidance, warning of infestation, preparing for drought, behaving for all intents and purposes like Mothers, like families... like thinking, feeling, sentient beings. Make way in consciousness for more relatives.
The ancient Native American tenet - ‘’We are all related…two-legged, four-legged, feathered, finned, furred, those that crawl in the earth and those that grow from it’’ - has never been more prescient. We now ignore the eternal wisdom of Nature at our mortal peril.
Be grateful this is a bestseller.
Essential reading.
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