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Trees Communicate (Original Post) peoli Jun 2014 OP
Yes, I've seen this. elleng Jun 2014 #1
All life smallcat88 Jun 2014 #2
Especially when anthropomorphized. immoderate Jun 2014 #3
the forests around here with the big trees are very old because it takes forever to roguevalley Jun 2014 #4

elleng

(130,156 posts)
1. Yes, I've seen this.
Sat Jun 21, 2014, 07:49 PM
Jun 2014

I think every living thing communicates in some way, and am observing more and more as I live in the 'country.'

smallcat88

(426 posts)
2. All life
Sat Jun 21, 2014, 08:04 PM
Jun 2014

is indissolubly bound together. - Lwaxana Troi, Star Trek:NG

That struck me as a universal truth when I first heard it more than 25 years ago. And yet, humans, supposedly the only intelligent life on the planet, seem more ignorant of that fact than the plant and animal life.

roguevalley

(40,656 posts)
4. the forests around here with the big trees are very old because it takes forever to
Sun Jun 22, 2014, 03:39 AM
Jun 2014

grow up here. We had a forest fire that was the size of Manhattan and Chicago combined. I remember wondering why I felt like shit the whole time it was going on and it struck me that I was feeling the trees dying. I could FEEL it. So did a lot of other people. When the fire was put out with rain and human effort the feeling went away.

This isn't a humanized response to me. I have read papers where plants have been used in tests for this very purpose and they found that they did communicate. Plants and trees. I think we're all connected. When someone suffers at some level we all do.

I love the Earth.

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