
Why I'm Thinking About Trees This Morning

If one tree fruits, they all fruit—there are no soloists. Not one tree in a grove, but the whole grove; not one grove in the forest, but every grove; all across the county and all across the state. The trees act not as individuals, but somehow as a collective. Exactly how they do this, we don’t yet know. But what we see is the power of unity. What
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A time for joining paws, roots, hands, vines. Ecosystems are more resilient as they become more complex and interdependent: the more nodes of connection, the wider the range of species diversity and collaboration, the more likely it is for a forest to withstand disruption.
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instagram.comInstead of digging its roots deep and solitary into the earth, the oak tree grows its roots wide and interlocks with other oak trees in the surrounding area.