Finding the Mother Tree - Simard, Suzanne

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Résumé :
From the world's leading forest ecologist who forever changed how people view trees and their connections to one another and to other living things in the forest--a moving, deeply personal journey of discovery of how, as a child in love with the woods, the author came to believe that trees communicate with one another and the story--spiritual and scientific--of how she proved her seemingly laughable theory, uncovering their secrets as well, and her own, and in the process became a world-renowned scientist.

Suzanne Simard is a pioneer on the frontier of plant communication and intelligence...

Biographie:
that forests are social, cooperative creatures connected through underground networks by which trees communicate their vitality and vulnerabilities with communal lives not that different from our own. Simard writes--in inspiring, illuminating, and accessible ways--that trees, living side by side for hundreds of years, have evolved, that they perceive one another, learn and adapt their behaviors, recognize neighbors and remember the past...

Sommaire:
she's been compared to Rachel Carson, hailed as a scientist who conveys complex, technical ideas in a way that is both dazzling and profound. Her scientific work has been called revolutionary and spiritual. Her work has influenced filmmakers (the Tree of Souls of James Cameron's Avatar) and her TED talks have been viewed by more than 10 million people worldwide.

Now, in her first book, Simard brings us into her world, the intimate world of the trees in which she brilliantly illuminates the fascinating and vital truths--that trees are not simply the source of timber or pulp, but are a complex, interdependent circle of life...