Author Suzanne Simard, has released her first book, Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/mother-trees-are-intelligent-they-learn-and-remember/
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/the-whispering-trees-180968084/
roughbarked said:
Author Suzanne Simard, has released her first book, Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Foresthttps://www.scientificamerican.com/article/mother-trees-are-intelligent-they-learn-and-remember/
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/the-whispering-trees-180968084/
I read that lengthy article which although interesting has a very hippy feel to it and consequently some views are rather extreme. However I think something is happening in forests regarding communication and understanding between organisms that is difficult to understand, but which makes the mindless forest clearing of logging companies highly destructive in a multitude of ways and at the opposite end from the hippy position.
The forests of Canada and northern Europe are very different to our southern forests or tropical rainforests, being far less diverse and less complex and what seems realistic there might well be different here. I think all organisms from microbes to a blue whale are conscious of their immediate surroundings and are aware of others that can harm them, are benign or those it has a symbiotic relationship, as such IMO vegetation reacts to local conditions for its own survival like everything else. In which case organisms do not need a brain, but the ability to sense activity within its immediate environment.
Yggdrasil
Circa 13th century AD.
> 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.
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PermeateFree said:
roughbarked said:
Author Suzanne Simard, has released her first book, Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Foresthttps://www.scientificamerican.com/article/mother-trees-are-intelligent-they-learn-and-remember/
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/the-whispering-trees-180968084/
I read that lengthy article which although interesting has a very hippy feel to it and consequently some views are rather extreme. However I think something is happening in forests regarding communication and understanding between organisms that is difficult to understand, but which makes the mindless forest clearing of logging companies highly destructive in a multitude of ways and at the opposite end from the hippy position.
The forests of Canada and northern Europe are very different to our southern forests or tropical rainforests, being far less diverse and less complex and what seems realistic there might well be different here. I think all organisms from microbes to a blue whale are conscious of their immediate surroundings and are aware of others that can harm them, are benign or those it has a symbiotic relationship, as such IMO vegetation reacts to local conditions for its own survival like everything else. In which case organisms do not need a brain, but the ability to sense activity within its immediate environment.
Upon my return, I set my bag down to fish out my house keys then leaned over
to retrieve said bag; but as my head came close to my window box my impatiens said;
“Welcome Home, THIS IS OUR GIFT TO YOU:
*‘Man Forgot How To LISTEN Whe He Learned How To SPEAK.’ *”
Sounds a fine book, I’m going to order it.
Bubblecar said:
Sounds a fine book, I’m going to order it.
Which one? Suzannes or Peters?
