Originally published on May 1, 2021. If you've ever walked through the forest and heard the whispering of the trees, it's easy to imagine that there's conversation happening — that there's a ...

The term “mother tree” was coined in the 2000s by a Canadian scientist named Suzanne Simard, who grew up in a family of loggers in the Monashee Mountains in British Columbia.

FINDING THE MOTHER TREE Discovering Wisdom in the Forest By Suzanne Simard. In 1980, a 20-year-old silviculturalist hunched over a sickly young spruce planted in a clear-cut forest.

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She got out of the car and approached the trees, considering how they relate to one another. I sat and leaned back against the old tree nurturing that crescent of seedlings through the mycorrhizal ...

Although in her book “Finding the Mother Tree,” Simard admits to nibbling pungent forest duff when she was a kid, she was by no means a professional tree-hugger.

Mother trees are the biggest, oldest trees in the forest. They are the glue that holds the forest together. They have the genes from previous climates; they are homes to so many creatures, so much ...

The review laid out what the authors regard as the three key claims underlying the popular idea of the ‘mother tree’: that networks of different fungi linking the roots of different trees ...

Best-selling author of ‘Finding the Mother Tree’ will speak to Brooklyn Botanic Garden Gala June 4 Dr. Suzanne Simard is international authority on discovering the wisdom of the forest.

Mother trees are the biggest, oldest trees in the forest with the most fungal connections. They’re not necessarily female, but Simard sees them in a nurturing, supportive, maternal role.

Trees communicate. They migrate. They protect. They heal. We climbed into the NPR archives to find some of our favorite arboreal fiction, nonfiction, and kids' lit — get ready to branch out.