Mother Tree, Daughter Seed

On the misty slopes of Hawai‘i’s sacred mountain Mauna Loa, high in the upland forest where the trees reach their branches to the open sky, a koa seed awakens. Slowly, gently, from beneath the warm soil, new life unfolds . . . Mother Tree, Daughter Seed: Lessons in Slow Growth follows the tender relationship between two native Hawaiian koa trees, Mother Tree and her offspring Daughter Seed. From the moment she wakes from her long sleep beneath the soil, Daughter Seed is apprehensive about the wo