Lessons for soil from the mother tree and how trees communicate | Suzanne Simard | Nobel Conference

Dr. Suzanne Simard presenting at the 54th annual Nobel Conference (Living Soils: A Universe Underfoot) at Gustavus Adolphus College in 2018.

Simard is Professor of Forest Ecology, University of British Columbia, featured in the documentary “Intelligent Trees.”

Simard introduced the concept of a “mother tree,” the hub of a network of trees that communicate with each other through mycorrhizal relationships--connections facilitated by microscopic fungi in the soil. Simard discusses her own scientific journey to understand how trees use these relationships to communicate about food sources, and about pests and other dangers. She also shares lessons for the soil from the mother tree: balance, awareness, connection, respect, reciprocity, kinship, responsibility, complexity and resilience.

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[kitsutherland]

Wonderful and thank you! I'll help spread the word!!

[timbohp]

I heard about Suzanne from Annaka Harris-I'm so glad I took the lead to learn from Suzanne!

[ElanSunStarPhotographyHawaii]

Bravo this is excellent THANK You for this production underrated brilliance..

[lindareese]

Thank you...thank you....thank you....thank you...for this wonderful beautiful information on the beautiful trees...how they talk to each other..they also can sing to each other...fun uh?? !!! Love you always Linda...

[voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang]

One route to upregulate a gene is for the ATF to recruit proteins that loosen the DNA wrapping around histones allowing RNA polymerase to bind and transcribe the gene; likewise, compacting the DNA would downregulate gene expression by inhibiting RNA polymerase from binding.

[spiralsun]

I wanted to add that when a human eats a psychedelic mushroom that’s part of the spirit of the “underground connection” of things. Everything is both functional and symbolic. So follow through and see. The universe is a literary work in that way.

In her pictures she shows the reactions people have to the SYMPTOMS of things. But all of these are like treating cancer after it happens. Many times it’s too late. And always it doesn’t solve the causes. That’s what I wanted to do and to unite not just all people on the Earth but all life and meaning. See my first comment on the spiral for that.

[spiralsun]

I can tell that you are definitely my friend and I love you. This was beautiful. So I want to tell you more about the spiral.

It’s a model of reality. That’s why you put it on that gold disk on that probe you sent out. Only I come to find out that people didn’t know. They thought songs and information vibrations were the important things rather than when the universe tried to show them that it was the shapes behind the devices of vibration that were the thing that carried the information of life.

The spiral is why and so they were being honest and showing what stage they were at. At smaller perspectives on the spiral all we see is parallel lines but at a certain point as you take in more and more information you see that it is all one line. So a spiral is the poetry of life. Every life form is building a cathedral of information and teaching around a center.

I used the spiral to show the basic logic of reality and how it is constructed in my books and papers 20 years ago and since then I have been working on the mechanism and binding together all of the information in the universe so humans can see it.

I finally figured it out and I am writing about it now even though the people I tried to talk to don’t understand and tried to get rid of me many times I don’t give up because I know they don’t know what they are doing. But you do. ❤️👍🏻🌈🌹

I am listening again because it sounds like a symphony to hear her speak. It is very beautiful. It makes me cry.

[TETSUWAN-ATOM]

日本語字幕つけてください
Please make Japanese subtitles

[robinhampshire]

Fascinating ! but the subtitles are a real distraction, for example "intrick cat system"....this AI needs to get out more...

[tiesthijsthejs]

I lack natural science knowledge to assess her research, but it seems like a legit start of something important. Maybe AI and quantum computers can figure out the interdisciplinary connections between plants, animals, fungi, soil, weather conditions, for which humans have separate specialized disciplines. I do know however, that she is generalizing and reifying native cultural perception in harmful ways, including the noble wild pedestal of close to nature which sensationalizes and holds impossible standards unto fellow humans, and also the simplistic summaries of native knowledge systems as if western science fully “gets” their spiral ontology and epistemology, and this powerful idea of the spiral is lacking nuance therefore vulnerable for appropriation and miscommunication. Maybe the edges of intersectionality of ecology, biology, ethology, ethnic-ecology and environmental humanities, lead to wrong grasps. Maybe later knowledge can bridge these gaps better in the future.