Finding the Mother Tree | Suzanne Simard 

When I was in my early twenties...I am 70 now I was hiking in Australia in the Ku Ring Gai Chase National Park and I felt a pulling and looked to my right and there was a magnificent tree and without thinking I walked towards it and put my arms around it and closed my eyes. I felt a pulling up inside the tree then opened my eyes and I was the tree and could see everything. I was invited to experience being a tree. I could feel the sun on my leaves and a gentle breeze blowing and a slight swaying and felt loved. Then for a second I thought what if I cannot leave and was immediately returned and to this day I regret having that thought. I know there is so much more because this is not the only experience I have had with nature. She is alive and well and filled with compassion and love.

Great book, not only for the science of the mother trees, but also for Suzanne's life journey and the mystery of discovery.

Amazing book. I finished it last week. My favourite place is to be in the woods, surrounded by trees and nature.

Susanne Simard is an amazing activist academic who profoundly understands the forest ecosystem. Her message needs to be brought into the classroom at Grade 5, or better yet, the forest can be the classroom.

Thank you for your work and education.

I'm so grateful for your work. I've always known everything in the forest is connected! Now I have a better understanding thanks to you! (Indigenous cultures have been right all along.)

?? Are we so lame so blind so ignorant that it took us into the 22 century to discover this extremely valuable & important information. ??Have we been asleep for a couple of centuries.

Wonderful. Thank you

Wow seeing you stand next too the mother tree. here on li NYC in my home i am still feeling its wow magnificence thank you . sincerely Michael sl

Wonderful work, confirming with empirical science what are hearts have been trying to say. I walk the woods anew, feeling life on a higher order, lead there by these tender, tenacious, thoughtful discoveries. Thank You.

Beautiful. Thank-you for this video and the book.

Thank you for writing the book.

After reading the book, as well as others (including those by Diana Beresford Krieger) I can no longer pass by a clear cut, or other mismanaged fellings without twinges of pain and grief. Yet I don't know how to begin effecting the types of changes that would stop such practices and remind people that the old ways of Forest management, such as those of Native peoples, are the only ways of sustainably harvesting wood/timber. How do you teach people, remind them, that respect for the forest and the trees (as well as all other life therein) is essential if we wish to continue as a species? That the raping the land of life and diversity is unsustainable, even though trees and plants will regrow (albeit not in the same thriving ways as they were left untouched)? I see the world through different eyes after learning these things, but there is still that sadness brought by the knowledge that as long as money and wealth reigns supreme over all else we are doomed 😔

Thank you for this! I just discovered your work through Boo Prince. Look forward to your book. May your wonderful message branch out to cover the world!

Wow very beautiful nature mam thank you

So so loved your book. Thank you for your personal sharing about your illness. It helped me with mine. I am going out tomorrow to find my Mother tree. I am going to give it a big hug ,say thank you and sit down at the understory and just be still🤗

I was given your wonderful book as a birthday present and it's the best present I've ever had! I can't put it down as it's so captivating. It's fantastic that you have proven with science and with such a lot of hard work, what many of us have felt on an intuitive level. The forest is connected and we can feel it! This is the start of something huge! Thank you, thank you, thank you for your incredible work and for your incredible book. I'm now off to continue where I left off. It's enthralling! 😀 Love and hugs to you. Xx

Listening to the book now. Beautifully written and fascinating world of trees.

I love your work, found out about you through Regen Summit this year with Soil food web.....as I am learning under Elaine Ingham...I am definately getting yr book...look forward to it...

Wow, thanks.

we can heal the world by living form our hearts

Your story and the story of the web beneath the soil touched me; your unwavering pursuit and diligence is a tonic to be enjoyed.

So glad I read this book!!

I just found Suzanne’s work today. Really excited for the new book!

This week, in the province of Limburg, Netherlands, a 200 year old forest is going to be cut so that a car factory can be expanded. There are not many forest that old in Holland, which was nearly devoid of grown up trees in the 19c. They've decided to move about 20 of these old trees to an other place, which is a thing only a car manufacturer can come up with. Like you can _move_ a 200yr old tree (and leave the live bringing fungi and micro organisms in the ground, to be covered by concrete...

I just finished your book! it's amazing!

Dear Madam, I salute for your dedication towards trees 🙏🙏🙏🙏

Relationships with people is of greater importance.

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❤🍄🕸️🌲 Thank you for your research! This builds upon my Mycological understanding of the mycelium’s vast network, communication , and symbiotic relationship with the trees.

They look after each other; do we do that? All of creation is a web of Consciousness; in other words, the Universe is a living breathing conscious entity.

Thank you for sharing your inspiring work and concepts! I hope you might consider revising a bit your use of music - it just doesn't live up to the power of your words and the images. Have you considered sharing the music of the forest itself? It's so rare for us to be able to hear that ancient, healing ambiance of wind through branches. That, plus a single musical instrument in a quiet mix, would let us hear you, and the forest, much better. With tremendous appreciation, no matter what!

not about us saving the trees, it's about how the trees will save us.

i love learning but hate dramatic music lol

Well I too am a forester for many years, reading your book and lots makes sense. Just wondering how we integrate the new realization into practice without devastating the industry?

it's too bad more people don't understand this about trees the way she does..

The music was too loud and competed with the speech, which was itself poorly mic'd. Other than that, it was a great video, but should be re-shot, or at least cut back on the music and re-process the audio to make it a bit more intelligible.

Everything we have been taught has been wrong.