Human beings share the planet earth with as many as 8.7 million different forms of life. From tiny viruses and bacteria to blue whales weighing about 200 tons, plants, trees, and fungi that spread over hundreds of thousands of hectares. The magnanimity of life on the earth is dazzling.
Out of the 8.7million estimated number of species, 6.5 million are found on land and 2.2 million are found deep in the sea. A study shows 86 percent of all species on land and 91 percent of those in the seas have yet to be discovered. For an understanding we can divide these into three major categories(not biologically).
A. Homo Sapiens
B. Animals, birds, insects, etc.
C. Plants and trees.
Although all these species have a different life cycle, different features, and different ways of life, they have one common feature, and that is they exist and survive only in groups,a society of their own.
Let’s talk about some very interesting things about trees.
Can you imagine that if the leaf of a tree is nibbled, it cries just like a human does when he is hurt? Can you believe that trees have feelings, memory, language, wisdom to make decisions, and a very special social system of their own? Like other beings, trees also can communicate. The electrical impulses Pass through their roots and move at 1/3rd of an inch per second. They are their mode of communication. In addition to it they use senses of smell and taste for communication. Let’s talk about their social system which exists just like the human social system.
As you know, a tree is not a forest. On its own, a tree can’t establish a consistent local climate. It’s always at the mercy of good or bad weather and strong winds. But together many trees create an ecosystem of their own. They can store a huge amount of water and can generate a great deal of humidity in the surrounding atmosphere which in turn moderates extreme heat and cold. They create their own required climatic conditions to survive. Trees live for long times in this protected environment as much as the oldest tree on earth is in Sweden, about 9500 years old. Trees live on a different time scale than human beings and animals. Time moves at a slow pace for them and they can afford to take things in a leisurely manner.
If every tree limit for looking out for itself only, then only quite a few of them would ever reach old age. They will keep on falling regularly and that would result in many large gaps in the tree canopy, giving way to storms to get inside and uproot them. The heat of summer would reach into the forest floor and dry it out. In the process every tree would suffer. That’s how they keep their flock together and save themselves from all the harsh climatic conditions. They share their food not only with their species but sometimes even go to the extent of nourishing their competitors also. Because they know that UNITED THEY LIVE, DIVIDED THEY FALL
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To check, how they cooperate, look at the roadside embankments while traveling on highways. You’ll find all the trees connected through their root system. On these slopes, rain washes away the soil, leaving the underground root network exposed. You’ll find that generally all the trees of the same species are connected through their root systems. They not only exchange food and nutrients, rather help in times of need. Forest or clusters of trees are super organisms with interconnection much like humans have colonies.
Today when humans have achieved so much to create all the facilities for an easy and comfortable life and achieve many milestones in science and technology, they have lost the basics of life by creating an individualistic culture. Whereas plant/trees are living, breathing, communicating and cooperating creatures, endowed with personality and the attributes of the soul. They are always ready and willing to cooperate in creating a conducive environment for life to survive on this planet earth for a long time. Let’s learn it from trees.
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