Why I'm Thinking About Trees This Morning

A tree’s most important means of staying connected to other trees is a “wood wide web” of soil fungi that connects vegetation in an intimate network that allows the sharing of an enormous amount of information and goods.

So perhaps we can take a lesson from our friends, the trees, and simply do our best with whatever situation we encounter. The conditions of our lives will always be less than ideal. But just to be planted on this earth for a brief period of time is truly a gift that we should continuously reflect on.

What we actually need is more dense networks of connection, like the interwoven mycelium of fungi. This network, which looks like the nervous system in our bodies, communicates and transports nutrients quickly. It creates more health and resilience in a garden or ecosystem.

Each tree grows in two directions at once, into the darkness and out to the light, with as many branches and roots as it needs to embody its wild desires.

the all-day, every-day stimulation created by wind, that dictates the girth of a tree’s trunk and branches as well as how often and at what angles a tree branches. Doesn’t that just blow you away? (What I find most interesting about this is, how does a tree store this mechanical input? Trees grow so high and for so long, they have to store the mech