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16 Reddit comments about The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate―Discoveries from A Secret World (The Mysteries of Nature (1)):

u/The_Meadiator · 77 pointsr/marijuanaenthusiasts

A little late to the party, but...

This does actually harm the tree. Cutting into a tree's outside bark will expose their inner bark (aka the phloem) which the tree uses to transport food all over the tree. If the inner bark is damaged and gets infected with bacteria/fungi then the tree will unknowingly transport the infection to the rest of itself and slowly die.

You can see in this picture that the tree has attempted to heal itself by producing a covering over the scratch marks people cut into it, and that's essentially scar tissue. It's weaker than the normal outer layer of bark, but is a quick fix to help the tree prevent infections.

If the tree does end up infected by either fungi or bacteria it will still likely live for another 10+ years because of the nature of how a tree grows and survives. The phloem only moves at something like 2cm/hr so for an infection to fully take over a tree it would take months on its own, and the tree has other internal defenses to attempt to prevent an infection that prolongs the lifespan even longer! And even still, the separate parts of the tree can live even if the trunk dies (i.e the roots or leaves), but if the trunk rots and becomes hollow the tree will likely fall over in a storm or strong gust of wind.

So, this tree is likely slowly dying, but is trying it's hardest to keep on keeping on! It can take tens of years for a tree to become weak enough to fall over or stop producing leaves, so this buddy will probably be around for a while longer.

Side note: if you're interested in this more, I would HIGHLY recommend reading The Hidden Life Of Trees because it is amazing.

u/DaisyKitty · 22 pointsr/Thetruthishere

These are the kind of posts I love to see on this sub. Thanks for initiating this discussion.

I think you may be referring to this book, a lot of the research you and u/RadOwl (cool name) ar discussing is in this book:

https://www.amazon.com/Hidden-Life-Trees-Communicate_Discoveries-Secret/dp/1771642483

u/orpheu272 · 14 pointsr/TheOA

That's what I love most about this series! The speech of trees with OA has a scientific basis. The trees help each other, nourish each other, and maintain a system that resembles a huge living organism.

I suggest you watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HPgqqdcQXA

And if you're interested, read this book, it's very enlightening: https://www.amazon.com/Hidden-Life-Trees-Communicate-Discoveries/dp/1771642483

u/LetsGoBlackhawks2014 · 6 pointsr/Indiana

> Actually it does! It’s really cool but in forests the trees sort of divide up sections of the sky by which they harvest sunlight. Trees in forests grow exponentially slower than trees in an open field.

You are right they do grow faster. But slow growth is better for trees and the microenvironment that they create. Faster growth leads to weaker/less healthy trees. Source.

u/barsoap · 5 pointsr/europe

Case in point, a long-running bestseller book is The Hidden Life of Trees. In which other country could you write a book about trees and have it be a hit (being a bestseller elsewhere after it was in Germany doesn't count, publishers love to translate and advertise any kind of bestseller).

u/fearcorcai · 4 pointsr/changemyview

I disagree with your title. It is something that I think is a very common view amongst many people. If you are looking for the MOST moral choice about diet then I think veganism doesn't go far enough. Disclaimer: I am not a vegetarian, vegan or anything else. I am a meat-eater like you. Veganism, as you rightly say at the end of your post, is ok with killing and consuming the corpses of plants. Any vegans I've met (not many), have not shown any consideration that plants mght be alive too. I have just started an interesting book and it has been eye-opening for me. Trees and plants warn other nearby plants when their leaves are being eaten. When a tree is injured, other nearby trees will give some of their food to the injured tree. This leads me to think that many vegans are anthropomorphising animals because trees are so unlike people, which is wrong. If veganism is not the most moral choice, then what is...fruitarianism. Fruit is the only thing (that I know of) produced by a living organism that is expected to be eaten by other living organisms. I believe this causes no suffering to the trees/plants producing the fruit. The tree/plant is allowing you to eat its fruit in the hope that you will disperse the seeds within and allow new trees/plants to grow.
Is fruitarianism practical? No (see the link above). But your question wasn't about practical, it was about causing the least suffering to other living organisms. Every day of fruitarianism is a day where you didn't kill or cause suffering to another living organism.

u/En_lighten · 3 pointsr/Buddhism

I don't know about the analogy, but trees in general do this or some similar things.

There's a book called The Hidden Life of Trees that has some, IMO, pretty interesting stuff in there, if you're interested.

For example, the author even tells about a stump in an old beech (forest) I believe that had been cut down something like 150+ years ago that was still alive, as it was supported by the other trees.

Generally, forests will apparently support sick individual trees, potentially because if a forest loses a tree then the sunlight gets through which evaporates moisture and changes the milieu of the forest floor.

u/cdnjimmyjames · 2 pointsr/SquaredCircle

Not certain, because I haven't read it yet (it's on my list), but it might be The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben that Bryan is talking about.

u/FrancesABadger · 2 pointsr/TheOA

np. I saw it posted (sorry can't remember who) right after I joined reddit. It's what helped me begin to understand how planned out and intricate Brit and Zal's story/puzzle is.

Beware, if you browse through past posts here or on r/forkingpaths it gets very addictive with sources from greek mythology to groundbreaking books to Leonara Carrington painter of SYGYZY & Q Symphony + the IRL Q Symphony, Nazi dream studies, this, etc. Plus theories like Fight Club HAP, forking paths from the start, interdimensional FBI (MIB), Sixth Sense Ending to S1, etc.

or just fun stuff. or things we want to believe, or ponder :)

u/plasticTron · 2 pointsr/microgrowery

I've been reading this book, it talks about how trees react to their environment
https://www.amazon.com/Hidden-Life-Trees-Communicate_Discoveries-Secret/dp/1771642483

I imagine cannabis has similar mechanisms

u/Samazonison · 2 pointsr/TwoXChromosomes

I hope this isn't looked at as inappropriate. I share this only to say that you are right about the trees. They are truly amazing beings. I always feel safe in the trees. They will absolutely protect the little ones.

u/wrong_read · 1 pointr/woahdude

I came across a nice book ads last time in the subway the book is called : The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate. great read!

u/warbird2k · 1 pointr/pics

You should check out Hidden life of trees if you haven't already.

u/Vociferous_Moose · 1 pointr/worldnews

Sure!

In terms of Western Science:

The Philosophy of Plants

OP also mentioned The Hidden Life of Trees (This one's a bit reductive, and Wohlleben's been accused of anthropomorphizing trees a bit too much by many ecologists)

This interview with Wohlleben at Yale360 is a good primer for his book *Free*

I've also mentioned Suzanne Simard and Stefano Mancuso. They've both done TED Talks on the subject which will pop up on a quick google search of their names. It's important to note, also, other thinkers have pushed back against their ideas!

In terms of Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK):

EDIT: Forgot this AWESOME interview with Robin Wall Kimmerer, the author of the book below, a Citizen of the Potawatomi Nation, AND a plant ecologist *Free*

Braiding Sweetgrass (I'm sure with some googling you could find some PDF's of a couple chapters online)

As We Have Always Done

This article by Deborah McGregor is a good primer on the dangers of co-opting and viewing Indigenous Knowledge in a reductive way (that of the "Noble Savage," which one person in this thread was attempting to get at, I think)

u/LivingInTheVoid · -17 pointsr/vegan