Deep-Rooted Communities
FINDING THE MOTHER TREE: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
BY SUZANNE SIMARD
Knopf, 368 pp., $28.95
Many of us look at the trees around us with affection. But there likely isn’t a person in the world whose life is as entwined with trees as Suzanne Simard.
I TOOK THE death of the spruce tree outside our kitchen window personally. When we bought the house a decade ago, it was only as tall as our first story. Now it reached up to the second. But a string of warm, dry springs a few years back fueled an epidemic of
