Simard takes us into her world, the intimate world of trees, in which she brilliantly reveals fascinating and vital truths: trees are not just a source of wood or pulp, but a complex, interdependent circle of life; that forests are social, cooperative creatures, connected by underground networks through which trees communicate their vitality and the vulnerability of a social life not much different from our own. In this amazing and inspiring story, the author tells us how trees living side by side evolve side hundreds of years, how their learning and adaptation occurs, how they compete with neighbors and cooperate with each other, how they are similar to people in this and how, like the structure of human society, at the center of their society are Mother Trees - powerful forces connecting and supporting everyone around them. The publishing layout of the book is saved in PDF A4 format.