Sublime

The gurus for this kind of niche-shift will be people who have studied the places we want to go. Systems ecologists like Howard T. Odum have studied the food chains in a prairie or estuary or bottomland and then drawn diagrams of energy flows and fluxes.

TREES MAINTAIN AN inner balance.

anthropologists Gary Paul Nabhan and Sara St Antoine to believe that the biophilia gene needed to be triggered.

it would leave gaps that would disrupt the forest’s sensitive microclimate

la forêt de Birnam,

Instead of calling on some scholar, I paid many a visit to particular trees, of kinds which are rare in this neighborhood, standing far away in the middle of some pasture, or in the depths of a wood or swamp, or on a hilltop; such as the black birch, of which we have some handsome specimens two feet in diameter;

A tree is a wondrous thing that shelters, feeds, and protects all living things. It even offers shade to the axmen who destroy it.

This ability to produce different compounds is another feature that helps trees fend off attack for a while.