Finding the Mother Tree

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• meristohm · Dec 6, 2021 · Recommends

  …have an easier time going without electricity than without books, unless I was part of a community that carried on storytelling traditions. Two others: Braiding Sweetgrass, by Robin Wall Kimmerer, and Finding the Mother Tree, by Suzanne Simard, both about ecology and reciprocity, guiding how I garden, parent, and relate to the bleeding edge of life in general.

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• meristohm · Dec 6, 2021 · Recommends

  …particularly impressed with the skill tree and the term “Inland Empire” for one of the detective’s inner voices, and that many failed actions can be retried after increasing the relevant skill. For books, Finding the Mother Tree, by Suzanne Simard, for reinforcing how important soil-health is to the growth of trees. I wish more of the old trees and not just Douglas Fir had been left around here, since they help the next crop…

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• meristohm · Dec 24, 2021 · Recommends

  Braiding Sweetgrass, by Robin Wall Kimmerer [0], because it brought the concept of reciprocity to the fore for me this year, and nudged me towards Finding the Mother Tree (Suzanne Simard), Eat Like a Fish (Bren Smith), and The Wayfinders (Wade Davis), all about ways of life that embrace diversity towards resilience in the face of the hyperobject of climate change. The…

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• cocoacat · Oct 21, 2023 · Recommends

  A book from an environmentalist author that explores similar themes is "Finding the Mother Tree" by Suzanne Simard. I think about the interconnectedness of plants frequently when I walk in the woods now.

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• meristohm · May 5, 2022 · Mentions

  I hope you find a good fit. Have you looked into complexity science? I first heard the term in Susanne Simard's book Finding the Mother Tree. [0] Along the way, lobbying your elected representatives (or equivalent) towards regulations that reduce our collective demand for energy conversion (etc--triage, starting with energy sector?) seems…

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• meristohm · Dec 4, 2021 · Mentions

  …personal growth along with the descriptions of how data was collected and shared. If you’d rather just read the research papers, see Dr. Simard’s publications [1]. [0] https://www.worldcat.org/title/finding-the-mother-tree-disco... [1] https://forestry.ubc.ca/faculty-profile/suzanne-simard/

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• culi · May 7, 2026 · Mentions

  …strikes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjGFWDSXtJk or https://yewtu.be/watch?v=KjGFWDSXtJk I'm also a big fan of Suzanne Simard's research on "mother trees". She wrote a book I've yet to read called Finding the Mother Tree that also has an audiobook available. But she also regularly does talks A book that kicked off the popular interest in mycorrhizae is The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben which is also quite digestible.…

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