Geographical Magazine FINDING THE MOTHER TREE: Uncovering the Wisdom and Intelligence of the Forest by Suzanne Simard book review FINDING THE MOTHER TREE: Uncovering the Wisdom and Intelligence of the Forest by Suzanne Simard book review Written by A S H Smyth by Suzanne Simard • allen lane ‘I have cut down my fair share of trees,’ Suzanne Simard confesses. Having grown up in a family that, for generations, ‘made its living cutting down forests’ – a way of life to which the born-and-bred Canadian remains sympathetic – in the 1970s she became one of the first of a new generation of women in the logging industry.