Beautiful, Trees! If you've ever been in the woods, alone, and felt and understood the peace, it is because you are among natures finest friends. Providing you with the very air you breathe and the nourishment for your soul that just cannot be purchased from a retail outlet. And, it is natural, and it is free! Beautiful,Trees!
Suzanne! You are fantastic! Thank YOU so much for your Science! You've made me cry because I love trees, I love NATURE! I feel connected with plants, animals, minerals...with the Cosmos. I try to respect them so, listening to you has been so motivating! I feel connected to you! THANKS so much for devoting your Life to the trees AND for sharing your great knowledge with us! Thanks for letting me know that I'm not alone! Suzanne WE ARE ONE! 🤗
Amazing talk. I just became a Treesister and I am proud of it. We are working to reforest the world. Our Mother Earth cannot do it alone. Thank you for this powerful message. ❤️🌲
So let's reestablish the relationship between nature and forests . To every person reading this comment I request to do as much as you can for nature and also share this talk as much as you can.
Amazing talk! The speaker seems so passionate and kind, it's a pleasure hearing her story. The topic is totally mind blowing! Science continues to prove that the only way of survival is cooperation and not competition, but we, humans, are completely blind and deaf to this message, encouraging competition in all areas of life although it makes us utterly miserable. I'm amazed of how Avatar-like her findings are. At the end everything is connected and so we are, even though we never remember it.
Humans naturally partake in mutual aid, it's only relatively recently that strict hierarchies and competition became the guiding factor of society. This isnt a human problem, it's a societal problem.
@@eeyjug9849 it most certainly is not "relatively recently" re hierarchies - it's the entire history of societies and civilization. Even within tribes there were chiefs/leaders who gained and had more than the rest. And it was passed down rather than democratically elected. It's pretty crazy that we still adhere to hierarchies structured by people who knew nothing about the world or science.
Aloha Dr. Simard! Wiping away my tears right now Your research is so beautiful What a confirmation that mother earth takes care of all of us from the littlest sprout to the greatest elder I believe that nature is infinitely abundant and growing Food forests everywhere is a key to the health and restoration of Mother Earth and abundant well being for all life 🌈💖🕸🌴🌳🌲 Thank you 🙏
As a child, I felt different personalities in trees! Some actually comforted me! Some trees were occupied with the work of getting water to the leaves... too busy to take notice of me
This is news, that I proved right. I cut down a lot of mother trees on my property, and all their neighbors died within a year. It's true... they communicate with each other... and they mourn too
22rockymtn Similar thing happens to the old peach trees in the back yard of our old house, they died in the year when the village was going to be demolished. Even the meat inside of the last-season peaches were becoming red instead of yellowish white as usual, the threes were about 20 years old. I really miss them...
I just ordered your book, Finding the Mother Tree. I'm surprised I could find your book in PAPERback...little joke there. But I really think you know what you are talking about, and i can't wait to read your book. I have recently become interested in Buddhism and Taoism, so this book will go right along with them i am sure, as Buddhism has a large belief in oneness, and Taoism holds a lot of respect for nature and how to work with nature instead of against it. Thank you for your Ted talk, and for your book, and all the research and time and energy to bring something so profound to the light.
Congrats for this wonderful video! We explained it so well and in a simple way for everyone. Nature and people are the same, they are connected to each other and "We are One". Once again "Bravo" for your awesome work throughout the years and regardless of your own endeavours.
@@gabrielacordova-valdivia2271 Hi, I study forestry at university of british columbia, she did teach us some of her projects but not in too much detail though
Love this. Everything is connected. Humans are overpopulating the earth at phenomenal rates consuming forests and habitat for agriculture and housing. I live on the west coast and last year when I flew home from overseas the sight of deforestation from above was extremely sad to see. Trees replaced by agriculture and buildings Please notice no politicians will address overpopulation.
Anybody else got reminded of the tree of souls from the movie "Avatar" ? We had them here on earth all along! I wonder how much time it will take for us to develop a neural lace to connect with them!
Made my son watch Avatar a few days ago, such an awesome movie. I love animals, I love life, but I get annoyed at people who feel that its bad to respect human>animal life while themselves not valuing plant life the same as animal life. We do what we do to survive, but some of us (even while eating meat) appreciate the circle of life. Plants are sentient - just in a different way. Eating anything is immoral depending on your experience, why do vegans not understand this?
I'm 34-year-old and one day i notes tree talking to me in movement's i thought wow so i looked up win trees talk to you and every thing you say is tru and believe me and their is more than you know
I talk with trees and in an area with many cornfields say they don't like the corn, it's turned into a monster. The trees a few hundred miles away know nothing of this.
Humans will only survive if individuals are able to pass their positive energies and cultural legacies to their children. Saving ourselves from ourselves starts in the HOME!
Thanks. This talk really touched and affected me. Question: Is it climate change that is killing the forests, or Acid Rain, or both. Could sick forests be causing climate change?
We might think we're "advanced" but talks like this show just how far we still have to go & that in fact in many ways we're more primitive now than centuries ago! Sad really :( We, as a species, need to open our eyes!
Lilac Lizard That's because we don't look and listen to things around us like the primitives did. We have phones now so we are disconnecting from each other at an astonishing rate, though we think the opposite is true. It is sad as you say.
Esto es muy bueno, y ahora maso menos se puede ver como repercute en el inconsciente colectivo, soy tecnico Agropecuario, y en el 2018 no dieron todo el tema de micología, y monocultivos y demás cosas.. fue para bien una integración rápida de estos conocimientos
Indigenous wisdom is valuable, and I want my local government, and state government, and federal government, to get off their high horse, and ask for partnerships, and reciprocity, for a chance to show actions that could merit forgiveness of the overbearing and destructive hierarchies established in the (recent) past, that are our present, but need not be our future. Connecting with people in my neighborhood, in my community, in my local government, in my state and federal government, and with the wildlife, the plants--- this is my goal: to deconstruct the oppression by connecting and reciprocity. It is the law of nature to be creative and reciprocal, yet it is also in nature to be destructive and chaotic; the difference lies in the will of people, us with consciousness, and those who choose to overthrow balance. I believe that it is a cruel and maligned thing to actively choose to propagate ignorance in other conscious beings, like Exxon did with suppressing evidence that their actions as a large large corporation were causing damage to humans and our health and the health of the lands on which we live. I imagine that such a choice was made out of fear, and ignorance, but also cruelty, a motive to gain a surplus of money at the expense of life itself. Depriving other living creatures of their right to life, and the right to make choices for themselves, is not the kind of action that can be reciprocated and sustained as such. We are One in that there is the internet connecting so many of us to ideas, til they become our ideas, to consider as perspectives different from our own give us more detail to discern information from. Using the internet to educate ourselves is good, but not enough, because we must also find spaces that are safe for us to unravel our fears and comfort them, and to be accepting as we struggle to understand new knowledge, and we must do this carefully. Finding people who are willing to listen with nonjudgment and compassion is a difficult task, a task of a lifetime, but there will always be one companion: yourself. Make yourself a strong companion to your own being, to provide comfort as best you can, and trust that you will be okay, and that you will seek the new knowledge you need, and adapt your actions to fit it. Build a tribe, over time, by strengthening those around you, who reciprocate strength to you as well. If they do not strengthen you, there will not be enough strength for you to give to them and to yourself, and so you must move on, and believe that there will be strength reciprocated in different relationships. Humans are not like plants, in that not every human will protect each of their kin. Not every mother will honor the dignity of their child and give them the nutrients they need in the world. But there is enough to be shared between all of us in the world, enough for these children. Receiving strength is an honor, that benefits all, but robbing another person of strength leads to unsustainable suffering for all of us. Indigenous wisdom and ways of living have survived thousands and thousands of years; colonized ways have not... and they won't. Either the systems born of colonization are deconstructed, or they will destruct themselves, causing suffering for the colonizers and the colonized, all of us. We have all come from somewhere, and that place is the Earth, and to be granted the strength we need to live still, we must reciprocate the strength to the Earth, and more, than we have taken. No one can do this alone. We are all connected; we must choose whom we are connected to, today, tomorrow, right now. With cruelty? With ignorance? With capital? Or with Connection? Respect? Reciprocity? Balance? Kinship? Elders? Complexity? Resilience? The paths to destruction are clear, and the paths to healing are revealed here in this video, and more, by indigenous people. One who learned two languages, traveled to another hemisphere of the planet, is a person name Nixiwaka Yawanawa, and they presented a TEDx Talk that has 2.8M views at the time that I write this, the same day in which I saw this video; the message being, we are all connected with nature. I am going to plant native seeds in the soil around where I live when the season is right for it, and I am going to join a radical organization with local people near me; I learned of 3 names this morning by speaking to someone who openly showed that they believed in mutual aid as a political identity. So do I. So do people who are in touch with the Earth. People who want to be in touch with their own feelings have so much power; that is why many organizations seek to systematically deprive people of the pleasure of their senses, because a person who is aware of their senses is too powerful to control. Be wary of cults. Be wary of anyone who says, "this is the only right way to feel, I know it, you should know it." There are no "right" feelings, in truth, it is more complicated than that. Be wary of those who do not seem aware of their senses. Such people are in need of healing, but not every person will choose that path. Connecting with people who refuse to feel the discomfort of change will bring suffering, and it will not help them, either. Connection is not something that you owe everyone. I do not owe everyone that I meet a connection, and neither do you. Remember that. The right to choose with whom you make contact is sacred. And when someone does not choose to make contact with you, you must not rob them of their choice. If you do not choose to make contact with someone, but they choose contact with you, you must tell them that their contact is unwanted. If they do not listen, you must show them. If they do not accept this, then you must defend yourself. Can you imagine a healthy forest where the mother trees do not provide to their kin when they are threatened or injured? How could such a forest be healthy? When mother trees are injured, they disperse their nutrients to their kin, to pass along their legacy, because trees and their kin are in a sense very much like one organisms that grows and decays and grows over and over again. You have effects on every other connection in your life, in your network, and you always will. Protecting your boundaries by choosing which contacts and connections you keep is important! It is important for you, and for those around you. I hope that those of us who value connection, respect, reciprocity, balance, kinship, elders, complexity, and resilience will make one organization made up of smaller networks that are strong, so that we are protected from people who still choose to try to make contact when it is communicated clearly that it is not wanted. I hope that older, and younger generations, not just my generation, learn and continue to learn the values of connection, respect, reciprocity, balance, kinship, elders, complexity, and resilience. The value of one of us is not insignificant, when we are One. I am valuable, and my choices matter. You are valuable, and your choices matter. Our friends, enemies, and strangers are valuable, and their choices matter. May we heal together.
According to the records of arborday and american forest, I am the only american to ever plant a hardwood forest, you can see it on facebook, I keep it academic only
Non scientist here. Can anyone explain.. "and if the mother tree is injured, she sends even more carbon to her kin seedlings". Can anyone explain why the mother tree would do this, as I would assume that the mother would need all the carbon she can get to re-heal.
why do the ted talks always have the microphones set up to hear every sound going on in their mouth and nose? turn down the highs, you make everyone sound like a mouth breather
15:20 It is because of Anthropocentrism. We consider ourselves above nature. Which is the funniest and most ironical thing ever. The creature that consider itself the most intelligent is the only one that can't grasp the most basic of all truths. We are all one single living organism, we don't compete against other organisms, we regulate each other naturally by design.
Nature can't be wrong, specially the God who made it. Sin is the cause of the death of creation. In God's time, everything will be restored as it was in the Garden of Eden. Thy kingdom come...
This woman spouts falseness. How can a person who claims to love the forest, take a job that required her to mark old growth trees for cutting down. I think she just follows the money. Now, the money can be found in protecting the forest, so now this is what she does.
I've never heard so much BS coming from someone who claims to love the forest. I need a shower now to get of the double talk filth that I've just heard. Borrow, don't buy, her book from the library so you can read more about her for yourself. This woman lives two lives and will change her talk based on which way the wind or perhaps money blows. Yes, I agree, save the forest and respect the role of trees, plant trees, etc., but she and her family have done a lot of damage to old growth trees. What she's doing now is trying to make penance. I wouldn't trust her to babysit my trees.
I urge people to look up three things: Permaculture, Bill Mollison and Geoff Lawton. Permacilture growers have known about this stuff for years. Great talk. She's terrific
