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“The wind whipped through the needles of the mother tree, but she stood steadfast. She had seen nature in countless forms: hot summer days when the mosquitoes swarmed, rain that came in sheets for weeks, snow so heavy some of her branches snapped, periods of drought followed by long, damp spells, the sky turned scarlet, her limbs on fire… she would be here for hundreds more years. Farewell, dear momma”

“The signals between the trees could be as sharp as the electrochemical impulses between neurons, the brain chemistry that allows us to think and communicate…The amount of carbon transferred relative to nitrogen was strikingly similar to their respective quantities in molecules of an amino acid called glutamate… the most abundant neurotransmitter in the brain”

“The older trees are able to discern which seedlings are their own kin. The old trees nurture the young ones and provide them food and water, just as we do with our own children. It is enough to make one pause, take a deep breath, and contemplate the social network of the forest and how this is critical for evolution… These old trees are mothering their children”

“The old and young [trees are] responding to one another by emitting chemical signals. Chemicals identical to our own neurotransmitters, signals created by ions cascading across fungal membranes.”