[Unedited] Suzanne Simard with Krista Tippett

On Being with Krista Tippett

On Being Studios

Sociology, Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality, Krista Tippett, Arts, Culture, On Being, Society, Society & Culture, Science, Social Sciences

4.7 • 10.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2021

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

Suzanne Simard is the forest ecologist who has proven, beyond doubt, that trees communicate with each other — that a forest is a single organism wired for wisdom and care. Simard found that the processes that make for a high-functioning forest mirror the maps of the human brain that we’re also just now drawing. All of this turns out to be catching up with intelligence long held in aboriginal science. She calls the mature hub trees in a forest “Mother Trees” — parenting, eldering, in a mode of mutuality and reciprocity, modeling what we also know to be true of genuinely flourishing human ecosystems.

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0:00.0	Support for on-being with Christa Tippett comes from the Fetzer Institute, helping build the spiritual foundation for a loving world.
0:07.5	Fetzer's new study, what does spirituality mean to us?
0:11.4	Reveals how spirituality informs our understanding of ourselves and each other, and inspires us to take action for the common good.
0:19.0	Explore these findings and more at spiritualitystudy.org.
0:24.0	I'm Christa Tippett. Up next, my unedited conversation with the groundbreaking forest ecologist, Suzanne Samard.
0:33.0	There is, as always, a shorter produced version of this wherever you found this podcast.
0:40.0	Hello. Hi, Julie. Hi, no, this Suzanne. This is Christa Tippett.
0:45.0	Oh, hi, Christa. This is Dr. and Hi.
0:48.0	So happy to have you with us.
0:50.0	Thank you. Thank you for helping me.
0:52.0	In this way, in this disembodied, but interesting way to join our voices.
1:01.0	To converse. Yes. Yes. How are we, Zach?
1:09.0	Yeah?
1:12.0	Okay.
1:17.0	Okay. No, it's going to wild. Okay.
1:29.0	Yes, it is.
1:37.0	Okay. Yeah, it is. It's near me.
1:49.0	Okay.
1:52.0	Well, again, welcome.
1:55.0	I've been following your work. I think I may have first heard about you a couple of years ago when I interviewed Robert MacFarlane.
2:03.0	Yes.
2:04.0	I know him from the UK. He's in the book.
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