' Diversity matters. And everything in the universe is connected - between the forests and the prairies, the land and the water, the sky and the soil, the spirits and the living, the people and all the other creatures.' Suzanne Simard The indigenous American people know this, the Aboriginal people know this, and I'm pretty sure people in my neck of the woods knew this in the dim and distant past, but we 'civilised' people have chosen to forget. We forgot to take only what we needed; we forgot to put something back for everything we took and we forgot to treasure all the plants and wildlife that lives right alongside us. Suzanne Simard's book is written from the heart and neatly blends together her scientific research with her own family stories....