What am I reading?
Simard brings alive the underground world of forests and affirms the inter-connectedness and wisdom of trees. She battles hardened attitudes, commercial pressures, blatant misogyny, her own inhibitions and the many challenges of creating unique experiments out in the field. Her persistence, born out of her love of trees, plays out against the backdrop of personal losses. She calls on us to change:
”We can continue pushing our earth out of balance, with greenhouse gases accelerating each year, or we can regain balance by acknowledging that if we harm one species, one forest, one lake, this ripples through the entire complex web. Mistreatment of one species is mistreatment of all.”
