The Secret Language of Trees

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• RE

  @realscience · 5 years ago · pinned

  There's actually 3 trillion trees... I was just testing you all...

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• ZA

  @zakleclaire1858 · 5 years ago

  Seems like science is <b>slowly</b> realizing what Indigenous people have know for generations.

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• PA

  @paulcooper8818 · 5 years ago (edited)

  Not sure if trees can talk, but they do bark

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• HE

  @Helm-w1q · 3 years ago

  When I was a child many years ago, I grew up in a yard that had five black walnut trees in it(good size yard) There was only a couple of other trees in the yard. A couple of plum trees, no other trees grew there. I found this strange because right across the street from us was a yard ringed by oak trees and the only other tree growing near them was an apple tree. I come from a long line of German wood workers. We make our living from wood and from our knowledge of it. That knowledge starts at the tree. I asked my father about this seperation of Oaks and Walnut trees. He told me at the time 50 years ago, that the trees release chemicals into the soil to stop other trees from growing. He also told me, we aren&apos;t the only ones who make a living from trees. So do squirrels. Squirrels plant trees and my Dad said they know where to plant them, and that they tend them like a garden. They will cut down saplings from other trees. I love trees. I am a child of the woods. I grew up in the woods. &nbsp;In the summer my Grampa would take me to cruise the trees to see which ones if any would be harvested in the fall. Dad took me squirrel hunting in the fall,winter ,spring, summer, he was there and hungry. Ma and my Aunt&apos;s would take tap maples, and in the winter, a boy could get lost in the forest and find his way out following the track. Trees have secrets but if you sit and listen to them they will tell them to you. Like the time the walnut tree complain to me about being the last tree in the spring to get it&apos;s leaves. So I asked him about how he felt about being the first tree in the fall to loose their leaves. Said he didn&apos;t like that either.

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• CY

  @CyPhi68 · 5 years ago

  As a Forestry major, I appreciate this.<br>Look up shinrin yoku, freely translated as &quot;forest bathing&quot;. &nbsp;We may not be directly connected to the trees, but being surrounded by them, being among them has a positive affect on our mental and physical health.

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• SE

  @senoritaartistica1999 · 2 years ago

  Trees talk through energy, &nbsp;everything has frequency to it. As Spiritualists,&amp; tree hugger, &nbsp;ground ing is my favorite. &nbsp;those who laugh or call us crazy aren&apos;t spiritually ready. I love 🌳.

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• PA

  @PamelaSprings-o7f · 2 days ago

  My Dad was a logger and he loved the woods. &nbsp;He used to take me hunting with him but he never shot anything, we just looked for the elk or deer. &nbsp;I came to love the woods so much. &nbsp;I don&apos;t know if it is possible to reincarnate as a tree but I feel in my soul like I was once a tree many years ago. &nbsp;I have never looked into it but maybe I should. When I was 3 or 4 I would have a reoccurring dream where I would be wandering through the woods and tall trees were all around me and moss and ferns were everywhere and I could smell the damp woodsy odor of the soil and needles. Then I would come to an area where I would pick up a door and go down under the ground where I lived and then I would wake up. &nbsp;I had this dream so many times I still can visualize it at 80 years old. I now garden and do a lot of planting and care for all my wonderful flowers, trees and plants. &nbsp;It is my passion.

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  @NormYip · 5 years ago

  The Hello Fresh ad really doesn’t make any sense for creating less waste. I have been cooking on my own for one person and buying groceries in small quantities, not bulk. A container of sour cream? Buy a small tub and find complimentary recipes that uses most of it in several goes. Maybe a cake?

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• SI

  @simonac688. · 5 years ago

  Lets make sure all humans learn this in Schools asp...&quot;

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• NY

  @nysteve2011 · 2 years ago

  &quot;Wind through branches like fire through water. Whispering, listening, talking with the sun, the moon, the stars and with each other. The language of the trees&quot; this poem was written 35 years ago by my then 8 year old son Michael. He knew things.

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• AN

  @aniksamiurrahman6365 · 5 years ago

  Now I know, we didn&apos;t even invent the internet, we just rediscovered a faster and unsustainable version of it.

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• NO

  @NoelleDoesArt · 5 years ago

  As someone who loves the forests this is amazing.

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