Suzanne Simard – författare

Suzanne Simard is a pioneer on the frontier of plant communication and intelligence; she's been compared to Rachel Carson, hailed as a scientist who conveys complex, technical ideas in a way that is dazzling and profound. 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 complicated, interdependent circle of life; 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-how trees, living side by side for hundreds of years, have evolved, how they perceive one another, learn and adapt their behaviors, recognize neighbors, and remember the past; how they have agency about the future; elicit warnings and mount defenses, compete and cooperate with one another with sophistication, characteristics ascribed to human intelligence, traits that are the essence of civil societies--and at the center of it all, the Mother Trees: the mysterious, powerful forces that connect and sustain the others that surround them. Simard writes of her own life, born and raised into a logging world in the rainforests of British Columbia, of her days as a child spent cataloging the trees from the forest and how she came to love and respect them-embarking on a journey of discovery, and struggle. And as she writes of her scientific quest, she writes of her own journey--of love and loss, of observation and change, of risk and reward, making us understand how deeply human scientific inquiry exists beyond data and technology, that it is about understanding who we are and our place in the world, and, in writing of her own life, we come to see the true connectedness of the Mother Tree that nurtures the forest in the profound ways that families and human societies do, and how these inseparable bonds enable all our survival.

Brought to you by Penguin. A dazzling scientific detective story from the ecologist who first discovered the hidden language of treesNo 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.© Suzanne Simard 2021 (P) Penguin Audio 2021

Bestseller New York TimesAutoarea ne introduce în lumea ei, lumea profundă a copacilor, ale cărei adevăruri fascinante și vitale ni le dezvăluie: copacii nu sunt o simplă sursă de cherestea, ci formează un întreg cerc al vieții. Pădurile sunt creaturi sociale, cooperante, conectate prin rețele subterane prin care își comunică vitalitatea și vulnerabilitățile, în comunități nu foarte diferite de ale noastre.Într-un stil accesibil și însuflețitor, Simard descrie modul în care au evoluat copacii trăind unii lângă alții timp de sute de ani, cum învață și își adaptează comportamentul, cum își recunosc vecinii, cum concurează și cooperează unii cu alții în moduri sofisticate –caracteristici atribuite inteligenței de tip uman, trăsături care reprezintă esența societăților civile. În centrul tuturor se află copacii-mame: acele forțe misterioase care conectează și susțin toate plantele din jurul lor.Dar autoarea scrie și despre viața ei: un copil născut și crescut printre țapinari, în pădurile din Columbia Britanică și un adult care a ajuns să iubească și să respecte copacii. Povestindu-și aventura științifică, ea scrie de fapt despre propria călătorie și ne face să înțelegem că dincolo de date și tehnologii există o curiozitate științifică profund umană, care își dorește să înțeleagă cine suntem și care este locul nostru în lume.

"Sf-filmen Avatar hämtar direkt inspiration från den forskning som skogsekologen Suzanne Simard bedrivit i årtionden i Kanada och nu har hennes enastående bok Allt jag lärt mig av träden utkommit på svenska. Hon har en devis: Vi ska inte rädda träden, träden ska rädda oss."Göran Greider, Aftonbladet"Texterna är personliga och levande, och genomsyras av författarenskärlek till och enorma kunskap om träden och skogen. Hennes forskning har fått stort genomslag i och utvecklat det amerikanska skogsbruket."BTJ

Detta är inte en bok om hur vi kan rädda träden. Det är en bok om hur träden skulle kunna rädda oss. Skogsforskaren Suzanne Simards banbrytande forskning har avslöjat hur träden samarbetar och kommunicerar med och lär av varandra – i stället för som man tidigare trott, att skogen präglas av konkurrens och den starkes överlevnad.

Slutsatser som till en början blev avfärdade och rent av hånade, men som i dag ses som så självklara att de på många håll anammats av modernt skogsbruk.

I sin rika självbiografi skildrar hon sin väg till denna fascinerande upptäckt och presenterar den lika lärorikt som underhållande. Det är också en bok som handlar om att växa upp som kvinna i en mansdominerad skogshuggarfamilj, djupt inne i de täta kanadensiska skogarna, och om att som kvinna ta plats i den minst lika patriarkala ordning som präglar skogsindustrin och -akademin. Men det är också en bok om att finna tröst, visdom och balans i skogen och hos dess mäktiga Moderträd.