Contrary to popular belief, trees have always been talking about world affairs (but now we finally listen)
So what can we learn from their 370 million years on earth?
The latest gossip among the global borderless nation of trees?
Humans.
Should the trees love them? Punish them? Or simply ignore them? Soon there will be something else anyway. The nation of trees has been on earth for 370 million years, and the moment today’s ‘humans’ jumped off their sub-Saharan branches and started roaming the world seems like yesterday.
But will these humans understand them, just like some other animals do?
Feeding a loved one that was killed 450 years ago
Did you know elephants have been visiting the graves of their loved ones for 35 million years?
It turns out that trees do the same thing but better. The German tree researcher Peter Wohlleben once came across a gigantic beech stump of a tree that was felled 450 years ago. And when he scraped away the surface with a knife to look for chlorophyll…
