05-19-2021, 12:21 PM
I knew about the root systems and communications of plants and trees, but not this point particularly:
I too love this. 2D creatures are so much more than humans allow in general. But when one is a child, one seems to know these things though not in an intellectual way. I always felt safe and welcomed when I was sitting in the maple tree or apple tress in my yard.
I love this.
When I was 15, I wrote a poem about a tree being my mother. That poem got me nominated to be the editor of the next year's poetry mag. Anyway, trees have always been special to me, like they are protectors, and of course, they are when you think of all the creatures they provide homes for, the shade they provide, the food even. In some Native American cultures, when you cut down a tree you cut down a community.
Quote:These researches call old trees in the forest "mother trees." The mother trees act as nodes or hubs in the network, helping to nurture new generations of seedlings in our network. (I love this notion.)
I too love this. 2D creatures are so much more than humans allow in general. But when one is a child, one seems to know these things though not in an intellectual way. I always felt safe and welcomed when I was sitting in the maple tree or apple tress in my yard.
(05-18-2021, 10:50 PM)Sacred Fool Wrote: Stop me if I've said this before, but last year I was up on the Holy Mountain walking way off the trails by some old Red Fir trees and I swear one of them put this thought in my head. "It must be very difficult to take a human incarnation." I was too surprised to sit down and chat in the moment. I just kept wondering (1) How crazy am I really? And (2) How crazy-difficult our modern life must seem to them where all they need is provided easily for them.
I love this.
When I was 15, I wrote a poem about a tree being my mother. That poem got me nominated to be the editor of the next year's poetry mag. Anyway, trees have always been special to me, like they are protectors, and of course, they are when you think of all the creatures they provide homes for, the shade they provide, the food even. In some Native American cultures, when you cut down a tree you cut down a community.