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No one—not biologists, not Eskimos, not backwoods hunters, not naturalist writers—knows why wolves do what they do.

And now the competition between the young trees and the deer heats up for a few years. Will the little beeches, oaks, and firs manage to grow tall enough fast enough so that the animals can no longer get their mouths around the all-important main shoots?

“They move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear,” wrote the American naturalist Henry Beston. “They are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendour and tr

But most introduced species pose no threat to native trees.

TREES MAINTAIN AN inner balance.

If the tree is obviously wider than it is tall, then the young tree is in waiting mode. The

Weil sich in der Ekstase der Nachtigall ihr Inneres als

Genetic misfits are discarded, even if the process plays out over many decades.

In einer ununterbrochenen Kette gebiert das Leben neues Leben, seit der ersten Zelle schon, die auf diese Weise nach wie vor ein Teil unseres Leibes ist.