Forest Teacher

This fireside examines how science allows us access to the deepest knowledge bound up in the book of existence. We explore the findings of Canadian forester and scientist, Suzanne Simard, regarding the secret world of forests.

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The Forest Teacher Exercise

( You may choose one or all from the Challenge Section)

1. How do trees and other forms of green plantlife acquire carbon?

2. Name the gas Dr. Simard used to trace the path of carbon in a forest.

3. Name the process used by green plantlife to acquire carbon?

4. Why is carbon important to plants?

5. Find an image of a glucose molecule. What atoms make up glucose?

6. Name three important discoveries revealed by Dr. Simard's study.

7. What invisible system allows trees to communicate?

8. Explain in your own words what forests teach us about community.

9. Explain how your response to #8 is "reading" the book of existence.

10. Explain how a forest can be a conversation with the Creator.

CHALLENGE SECTION

11. In a poem or poetic prose, express a conversation with a forest.

12. What detail of Dr. Simard's work seems most important to you? Why?

13. Explain how this knowledge can change the experience of a walk in the woods.

14. Create a poem or use poetic prose using the theme, Lords of Nature.