Ted Lasso · Season 3, Episode 10, "International Break"
Beard's Simard reread: Finding the Mother Tree
Coach Beard (Brendan Hunt)
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What it tells you
A season after quoting her, Beard is reading Suzanne Simard's memoir in International Break. The Mary Sue and Books, Beans and Botany both put it in his hands. He uses it on Nate again, still about trees sharing the light.
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Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
Suzanne Simard · 2021 · memoir
Simard is a forest ecologist at the University of British Columbia who showed trees trade nutrients through fungal networks. She inspired a scientist in Richard Powers's The Overstory. Beard keeps giving Nate the same speech, and he has finally brought the source.
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