“‘My ideas are a little revolutionary’: Ecologist Suzanne Simard on Intelligent Forests, the Climate and Her Critics”

Ecologist and writer Suzanne Simard speaks about the challenges she has faced since presenting her research on the intelligences of forests, along with the opportunities for better understanding. Despite scientific backlash, Simard’s work focuses attention on the connections, communications, and relationships between trees and other forest beings. In this article, she describes why the limitations of mainstream scientific perspectives and approaches are too confining to understand the larger network of relations which exist in a forest.