The Social Lives of Trees

[Steppingfeet]

Sorry about that, 'feet.  I guess I see the impressions born of 2D experience as various factors among many others (i.e., not strongly deterministic) upon entry into 3D.  But I could be wrong about that--it's just so hard to really know.  Perhaps various unknown ancient peace loving cultures who left us no lasting monuments (there were thousands of such just in N & S America, for example) were descendant of vegetal varieties?  Maybe Quaker and Shaker types?  I wouldn't be surprised if there were cases like that.

Ancestry.com would be a lot more interesting if it traced our history all the way back to broccoli.

Gosh, this talk makes me want to go outside and sit in the woods right now.  But the damned coyotes are sooooooo noisy and disruptive.....

We have them around here too. It's so weird that they all yelp and howl as a pack only in short, discrete bursts, then it's gone as quickly as it came, and the night is quiet again with crickets, owls, frogs, and so forth. Not a melodious sound, they make.