…One part Indiana Jones, one part Mister Rogers, she is a Canadian national treasure and global environmental icon. …Simard’s new book, When the Forest Breathes, finds her back among the trees, furthering her research while also considering her legacy. …In this book it’s apparent Simard is a kind of mother tree, too – a giant, deeply rooted figure with a critical role to play in connecting and supporting the next generation of forest ecologists. …“Science is not enough,” she has concluded. Hence the search for other avenues for advancing conservation and restoration work: among them, books like this one, which allow her to step outside the linguistic constraints of peer-reviewed research and provide an “interpretation” of her findings and the philosophy behind it. There is poetry in this work deep in the forest, and she doesn’t shy away from it.