Comments on: Book review – Finding the Mother Tree: Uncovering the Wisdom and Intelligence of the Forest/2022/02/25/book-review-finding-the-mother-tree-uncovering-the-wisdom-and-intelligence-of-the-forest/Reviewing fascinating science books since 2017Fri, 07 Feb 2025 15:53:49 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/By: Book review – Eat, Poop, Die: How Animals Make Our World | The Inquisitive Biologist/2022/02/25/book-review-finding-the-mother-tree-uncovering-the-wisdom-and-intelligence-of-the-forest/comment-page-1/#comment-94927Wed, 19 Jun 2024 14:13:35 +0000/?p=16711#comment-94927[…] trees by littering the forest with salmon carcasses, which Suzanne Simard approvingly mentioned in Finding the Mother Tree, has a few detractors. Roman spends time in the field with Daniel Schindler who thinks that poorly […]

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]]>By: Book review – Biocivilisations: A New Look at the Science of Life | The Inquisitive Biologist/2022/02/25/book-review-finding-the-mother-tree-uncovering-the-wisdom-and-intelligence-of-the-forest/comment-page-1/#comment-94904Fri, 31 May 2024 11:43:50 +0000/?p=16711#comment-94904[…] approvingly mentions Suzanne Simard’s idea of the Wood Wide Web and mother trees. I have some issues with this concept but more interesting is Merlin Sheldrake’s warning in Entangled Life that this metaphor is […]

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]]>By: inquisitivebiologist/2022/02/25/book-review-finding-the-mother-tree-uncovering-the-wisdom-and-intelligence-of-the-forest/comment-page-1/#comment-94829Mon, 08 Apr 2024 10:43:02 +0000/?p=16711#comment-94829In reply to Graeme Miller.

Just listening to this podcast episode now. This is great stuff! Really insightful, I’ll link to it in the review as well.

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]]>By: inquisitivebiologist/2022/02/25/book-review-finding-the-mother-tree-uncovering-the-wisdom-and-intelligence-of-the-forest/comment-page-1/#comment-94828Sat, 06 Apr 2024 20:40:12 +0000/?p=16711#comment-94828In reply to Graeme Miller.

Thanks for the feedback Graeme, I’ll give that podcast episode a listen!

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]]>By: Graeme Miller/2022/02/25/book-review-finding-the-mother-tree-uncovering-the-wisdom-and-intelligence-of-the-forest/comment-page-1/#comment-94827Sat, 06 Apr 2024 08:06:02 +0000/?p=16711#comment-94827very good and fair review! I am just finishing the book and have thoroughly enjoyed it. I agree with your points about the language used and how there are many ‘yet fully’ unjustified points made. That said I believe she is a pioneer and has made some incredible findings (like you also pointed out).

But yeah, good review and thanks for the pointing me in the direction of the podcast episodes :).

If you haven’t already you should give

” Reconsidering the ‘Wood Wide Web’ with Justine Karst” a listen on the ‘Yourforest’ podcast.

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/reconsidering-the-wood-wide-web-with-justine-karst/id1262529914?i=1000604305414

Many thanks,

Graeme

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]]>By: inquisitivebiologist/2022/02/25/book-review-finding-the-mother-tree-uncovering-the-wisdom-and-intelligence-of-the-forest/comment-page-1/#comment-94633Sat, 09 Dec 2023 10:33:02 +0000/?p=16711#comment-94633In reply to Melinda Tillitski.

Hi Melinda, yes, I consider trees to be plants.

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]]>By: Melinda Tillitski/2022/02/25/book-review-finding-the-mother-tree-uncovering-the-wisdom-and-intelligence-of-the-forest/comment-page-1/#comment-94632Sat, 09 Dec 2023 01:28:08 +0000/?p=16711#comment-94632Thank you for sharing your review. I am a fiction writer, not a biologist. In your use of the word “plant” are you including trees?

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]]>By: Book review – Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Futures | The Inquisitive Biologist/2022/02/25/book-review-finding-the-mother-tree-uncovering-the-wisdom-and-intelligence-of-the-forest/comment-page-1/#comment-48844Fri, 03 Jun 2022 21:30:07 +0000/?p=16711#comment-48844[…] he is surprisingly critical of the relatively novel idea of the “Wood Wide Web“. This is the finding that mycorrhizal fungi connect different plants, even different plant […]

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]]>By: Finding the Mother Tree: Uncovering the Wisdom and Intelligence of the Forest - 3 Quarks Daily/2022/02/25/book-review-finding-the-mother-tree-uncovering-the-wisdom-and-intelligence-of-the-forest/comment-page-1/#comment-42624Sun, 27 Feb 2022 18:03:38 +0000/?p=16711#comment-42624[…] More here. […]

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]]>By: Cyberkitten/2022/02/25/book-review-finding-the-mother-tree-uncovering-the-wisdom-and-intelligence-of-the-forest/comment-page-1/#comment-42424Fri, 25 Feb 2022 15:06:09 +0000/?p=16711#comment-42424I think I’d find this more annoying than interesting. So thanks for the review! [grin]

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