Peter Kalal

Creatures with such a luxury of time on their hands can afford to take things at a leisurely pace.

I’ve just started Peter Wohlleben’s The Hidden Life of Trees, and I can’t get enough of Tim Flannery’s introduction. He writes:

“One reason that many of us fail to understand trees is that they live on a different time scale than us. One of the oldest... See more

Treat art and expression as strategy. People don’t rally around facts, but around what moves them.

Proof that the world is stranger than we think.

Ecologists have found that trees send tiny electrical pulses through their roots when they are stressed or cut, and nearby trees register those signals within minutes. Entire groves shift their chemistry in response. In one particularly cool example, the saliva of leaf-eating insects is sensed by the... See more