Finding the Mother Tree: Uncovering the Wisdom and Intelligence of the Forest

Suzanne Simard, a world-renowned scientist, has written a scientific memoir that reveals the secrets of a lifetime spent uncovering startling truths about trees. She discovered how trees communicate underground through an immense web of fungi and revealed the Mother Trees, which nurture their kin and sustain the forest. Her findings are now firmly supported by data and offer profound lessons about resilience and kinship.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 368 pages
Publication date: 03 March 2022
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd

The International Bestseller

A scientific memoir as gripping as any HBO drama series
Kate Kellaway, Observer

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.

Weight: 292g
Dimension: 129 x 196 x 25 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780141990286