Living With Trees

     Trees are masters to provide movement of their foliage under the stimulus of light. Leaves normally move to be at right angles to the direction of the light. The extent of this tropic movement depends on the intensity or amount of light falling on the trees foliage (phototropism.)

    Humans have been struggling with the problem of garbage disposal for eons of time. Every thing not used by trees such as leaves, branches, bark, or fruit that has fallen immediately starts decomposing and is reduced to organic material. Its nutrients are used again by the trees in the vicinity of the waste. Not bad for an entity without a brain.

    Earth has a richness that abounds in life sustaining products. It is gratifying to know---plant roots search for their home, mother earth, the product of their own manufacture. How about that as an example of parental bonding. This searching is a response of their roots to gravitational pull (geotropism.)

    Every living plant senses the presence of water and immediately sends its root structure in search of water by bending or extending its roots (chemotropism.) There are forests, where up to 70% of the annual rainfall is returned to the atmosphere through evaporation. It has been estimated that in a area of approximately 300 square feet; 400 trees 75 feet high will evaporate 40,000 pounds of water (5000 gallons of water each day.) The contribution to climatic equilibrium cannot be over emphasized when decisions to remove trees is confronted.

    How does nature influence the structure of plant life? Humans use man made products to strengthen buildings and structures. Maybe plants have genetically reasoning genes strengthened by thousands of the same species, combining and transmitting casually the need to strengthen their leaf structure. For example, the shape of a leaf is designed through corrugated structures, fibrous stems, and a combination of many structural building stones. Plant features are passed on from plant to plant until the environment changes and forces the trees to modify their genes. They adapt slowly to the new climatic change and create an entirely new growth pattern for their species.

Trees are products of the environment and their responses are the results of their species communicating with each other. Man has wondered for ages whether or not plants think. Some say they do and if you talk to your plant it will respond by staying healthy and strong. Perhaps there is mental communication between humans and plants and visual contact between plants and animals to stimulate a reaction. Humans possibly generate an energy field aura sensed by plants. Some of the most beautiful trees live in an environment of soft sounds and peaceful settings. Perhaps it's a combination of the three basic tropisms generating ethereal messages for which each specie of tree is individually receptive. Some plants react to any physical contact with their foliage, some to violent shaking, and some to loud noises. I wonder if trees sense pain or feel an unbalance to its original conformity when a limb has been cut off.

    Natures communication system is selective and apparent when multitudinous congregations of birds, animals, insects, trees, and plants are always found in peaceful, spacious and beautiful environmental settings.