“Before I knew of Suzanne Simard’s work, I was calling this series by the name Mother Tree Holds the Stories. The idea of Mother Tree came through a very small painting I did, in which a tree emerged as a woman walking, a crown of leaves and branches upon her head, and I knew her name was Mother Tree.”

“It has been one of my greatest joys to come across others who call tree Mother, and who describe Mother Tree in myriad ways.

This is a collection of reverence, love, and reparation to the trees.”

May we all pause to thank and to love a tree while we are alive.” -Alana Garrigues