Finding the Mother Tree by Suzanne SimardRead about the other entries on the list.
We named Suzanne Simard’s Finding the Mother Tree one of the Best Science Books of 2021, and let me just say, it transcends the category. Suzanne Simard has been studying trees her entire career and what she has discovered is nothing short of extraordinary: through their vast root networks, trees communicate with one another, they warn one another of threats, they learn and adapt their behaviors, they recognize their neighbors, and they sustain one another. Bringing in her own experiences of love and loss, connection and disconnection, Simard’s book is a resoundingly powerful portrait of what it means to live, to survive, and to learn—whether you’re human or a tree, because we’re really not that different, after all.
--Marshal Zeringue
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