Anyone who finds trees interesting should read Richard Powers's amazing, Pulitzer-winning book "The Overstory"
The Social Life of Forests
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#12Reading The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben was pretty mindblowing. I encourage anyone who found this article interesting to check it out as well.
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#13Another thing that trips me up about clear cutting is the amount of organic matter that's removed from the forest that would otherwise return to the soil; soil nutrition has to be dropping like crazy in land that has been clear cut for several generations.
Also, I hope we figure out how to fruit mycorhizzal species sooner rather than later :-)
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#14Another book recommend related to this subject: Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer. I'm 100p in and vibing. I really recommend it!
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#15If you prefer video, this Ted Talk from Suzanne Simard does a good job of summarizing her team’s discoveries about how trees communicate. https://www.ted.com/talks/suzanne_simard_how_trees_talk_to_e...
I find her ted talks way too anthropomorphic to be honest. Now that nature is a complex web of mutually beneficial interactions, why not (and I'd root for this actually). If she could remove the emotional side of things it would help I believe.
I think the mere concept of this level of communication sounds very intimate -- very emotional. I would stop focusing on whether or not the science is presented in a way you expect it to be.
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#16Anyone who finds trees interesting should read Richard Powers's amazing, Pulitzer-winning book "The Overstory" http://www.richardpowers.net/the-overstory/
I would also listen to his interview on NPR. The way he talks about trees. I just love it. It's everything that I have always felt inside, but he did the research to prove it.
I knew being a tree hugger would make sense one day.
https://www.npr.org/2018/04/19/602903697/novelist-richard-po...
Or this one
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#17Another book recommend related to this subject: Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer. I'm 100p in and vibing. I really recommend it!
A third book in a similar vein is Lab Girl by Hope Jahren. It's a bit of her own story mixed in with useful info, but you can feel the love she has for the subject.
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#18Anyone who finds trees interesting should read Richard Powers's amazing, Pulitzer-winning book "The Overstory" http://www.richardpowers.net/the-overstory/
Can +1 that, read that book recently on a friend's recommendation. The way he describes how the trees feel is so impressive
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
I find her ted talks way too anthropomorphic to be honest. Now that nature is a complex web of mutually beneficial interactions, why not (and I'd root for this actually). If she could remove the emotional side of things it would help I believe.
I think the mere concept of this level of communication sounds very intimate -- very emotional. I would stop focusing on whether or not the science is presented in a way you expect it to be.
It could be. Or it could be the equivalent of people screaming at each other in all caps on the internet. We don't really know.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
I find her ted talks way too anthropomorphic to be honest. Now that nature is a complex web of mutually beneficial interactions, why not (and I'd root for this actually). If she could remove the emotional side of things it would help I believe.
I think the mere concept of this level of communication sounds very intimate -- very emotional. I would stop focusing on whether or not the science is presented in a way you expect it to be.
I'm sorry but her link with sickness emotional support and plants synergy/exchange network is cringe at best. And I'm open minded regarding science and status quo ..