How to Make Friends With Trees

I tried to keep this one shorter, I swear, but it seems there was more to say!
This is a video about making friends with trees. It includes: a simple guide + a bunch of ideas, and a few stories thrown in for good measure.
I hope you enjoy it, and I hope you go out and make a new tree friend very soon!
So much love,
♡ Zoe
P.S. To read about our adventures in Redwoods National Park, where the intro was filmed, click here:
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Under Giant Trees - by Agnes Obel
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[@pockets6309]

when I was younger I had 5 trees in my yard, 3 of them had swings on them, and one I would climb often to get away from my parents. But we have recently moved, and the new people who live there cut 3 of them down, and the other had to lose his branches truly broke my heart. This video made me realize how much I loved those trees and all the moments i’ve had with them

[@reginacaporn]

I felt a tree calling to me today ( one that I see all the time in my backyard) so I went and hugged it, and just felt so much love in return. It was a very humbling and beautiful experience. Then tonight I see your video, the universe is guiding me. Thank you, I will definitely keep up my relationship with this tree and work on communicating with him.

[@mecosario9022]

Hows the tree going?

[@ravensparrow7443]

I’ve always felt a strong connection with trees, my dad said when I was little I used to hug the trees across the street, and even now, I love trees and I have tons of friends that are trees

[@sitotawberhanu4279]

I love trees too I even have two tree friends that are really nice I reallly looooooooooooovvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvveeeeeeeeeeee treesssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss

[@mokkaveli]

I'm happy for you

[@sonofabear]

I am glad you are making videos again! I also think interacting and engaging with the natural world is the best path forward. I have many tree friends as well as mushrooms(they are fun guys).

[@ZoeEccles]

Hahahaha 😆♥️🍄 aaah, that is worth a giggle. Oooh yes, making friends with other plants, and even getting to know them through the ways they influence us when we eat them is something that interests me! But also, I just love the idea of you and your fungi friends hanging out in the woods ☺️🙏🏽♥️🍄. So sweet! Thanks for sharing James!

[@TaraRoseAstrologer]

Yay! I’m glad to see you back 😄 I love trees and Mother Earth so much. I try to send her love everyday. 🌎💚🌳

[@stellaskrtic848]

Hey, I am a young witch and I just wanted to say how glad I am to have come across this video. I was just now out visiting my treefriends as I live in the forest. Thank you for spreading this message of love and wisdom.

[@iknowyoureright8564]

Sometimes When walk in nature, I see these little plants, kind of lie a shrub maybe 6-8 inches tall from the ground, with maybe 5-10 quite large leaves and I promise you, I have seen them wave, like just one of the leaves will be sharply swinging side to side, no wind or anything and it’s always just one out of the bunch, first time I kind of laughed and thought hey that plant is waving at me, after that I always wave back and smile. And I can picture it smiling back. Going to try with trees over the next few weeks and months. Luckily I live in Ireland so no shortage of trees here, perhaps faeries too, :-) I haven’t seen any yet though I’d be a bit apprehensive of that anyway. Nice video, great venue. :-) 🙏

[@Nate1975]

You are such a lovely spirit. Humble, soft, playful

[@laurengayle6543]

What a sweet young lady. We ALL need to keep the CHILD within us ALIVE!!!! Because the childlike perspective within us has it's own WISDOM!! Nature helps us to balance between the CHILD & the ADULT. AND yes TREES are very HEALING. I know from experience. They help with depression. TRY IT😊💚🤗💚

[@Ladyofacat]

I remember talking to a firr tree and felt like a web was on me but there wasn't nothing there 💚

[@rashb3994]

I've always had a bit of healing ability and I wanted to practice taking away pain so I tried on my favorite tree I vibe with when I hike that is a little damaged maybe from fire. So I asked it to teach me how and to let me and after 20 minutes of my hands on it connecting with it I start feeling a sucking / pulling energy. It was an interesting sensation. Then I'm like okay how do I know if I healed it or took away away pain? I start moving my hands around it and all of a sudden I'm led to two nails stuck in it. All the weeks of mediating, feeling and vibing with the tree never saw them before So I needed to remove them, as the message I got was that nails are only okay for a purpose. So I went to remove today, couldn't other out yet, going back with a different tool. But bottom line it led me to it's pain and what I needed to do. Anyways thanks for your video! Fun to hear from a fellow tree talker speak in it. :) Just wanted to add this as a testimony.

[@natureaestheticmoments2887]

Trees are majestic beings.

[@gaia_arttt]

I am so happy for this video, I've waited a long time for this 😄. You made my day and you are one of my favourite people Zoe, plus when I am super sad I watch your videos, it helps me. Thank you Zoe, I really think that you saved me many times from destruction💕💕💕 I really hope you visit Greece some day!!! Love you 💕

[@vil4038]

I can resonate a lot with what you said. Sometimes I just appreciate earth and Mother Nature and I can her her replying with love or like an embrace 💛💛

[@jessiee2115]

My sister and I have always held friendly reverence for trees. Currently, I've befriended a lovely big old Tanoak. I like to bring them wine and smoke and just enjoy their company. It's not uncommon to find me sleeping either on one of their huge branches or at the roots. I can't feel at home without knowing I'm near to an old tree.

[@enchantingmoon7445]

I am a witch and the earth is the most important thing to me ! Spread that love because humanity is very disconnected from mother nature.

[@markcalhoun7323]

BB

[@jacobtaylor8250]

Love your staff. Excited to see fairy videos. Love the video by the way and actually when I first moved to the area I'm at right now I was looking for a tree to hang out with for a long time and now that I'm moving away I just found a tree that is great I guess I was just looking in the wrong places.im happy to see you back

[@ZoeEccles]

Aawwww I am so happy to hear this! 😄✨🌲🌿 I think you will find a new tree friend near where you move, I’ve found one or two or three in each place I live. I like to go back and visit them whenever I return ☺️💞. Wishing you a wonderful day!

[@lakaishacann]

I started out with hugging a tree . Now I have a tree at my job that I decided to touch. Every chance I get to walk and visit the tree I do. I love it it's so relaxing and I am starting to pay attention to it now in the seasons. Awesome video thank you ❤️🌳

[@DestaniesDestination427]

I can hear the trees and I’m not sure what to do? I try to tune in and sink into my heart space… I’m Newer to the unseen realms and spirituality!! Thank you so much for this ❤ omg 1:11 😮😊

[@radhadas3339]

There is a path that goes right through my house and bedroom that this old tree goes through to his meetings he has with the other trees. When he exits my house there is like a portal or path that he enters and they have their meetings there.

[@DylanRMcCabe]

Such a well-timed video for me.. as I went to visit an old tree friend of mine yesterday. I cleared the space around her, as it had become neglected. She's like a mother tree to me. Thank you for this 🙂 I have also had a tree friend wherever I've lived 🌳💚

[@AdventuresAcross]

Loved this video Zoe! And great to see you again on KZbin :) I love visiting trees! It's fun to do this with rocks too :)

[@sarashalda7787]

💚 trees have always - always been my family -- ---my REAL family - --- much more than humans ---- I have ALWAYS been able to hear -- and ---- feel them ----so what does that make me ??...🦋

[@FennandCoal]

Its so wonderful to see you again!! I loved this video, Thank you for posting it. Ive been curious for quite some time on how to go about talking with the trees 💓

[@BlackPanther-de7mx]

You are a beautiful kind soul.Thank you for your videos.I am also from New Zealand.Blessed be.

[@rljacks1]

Awesome video. Trees have always been a calming space for me. Thank you for making this video. Namaste 💖🌸

[@kadenjohnson2039]

It’s crazy to find this! I love it so much. I can see faces as well

[@emmy7415]

I want to be friends with you so much, you have such beautiful energy 🌸

[@djarnes9917]

Miss u!!! I truly hope life is grand for you!

[@eleanorheron7552]

Straight away I loved this video🌾🥰

[@ZoeEccles]

Awwwwww ☺️✨♥️🌲! Yaaaay, haha, I am smiling a huge grin right now, thanks lovely.

[@Justanotherhuman11]

Trees are silent and ancient yet so alive!

[@Schmingle38]

I had a really weird dream last night about trees as well. I was in a massive forest and i was seeing faces in trees and i felt like they were alive. It was only a quick dream though. Still it was really cool!

[@b.lizz_]

Wow i loved this video ty! i really would love to hear more 🙏🏻😇🫶

[@spyware9383]

So peculiar moment but I've had the mick taken out of me most me life on beliefs.. but this one where I draw the line of people being viscous towards me.. I talk to trees and have done since I can remember and was a random time of finding your video out on lunch break on a bench next to a huge tree.. love it so much and knowing there's more of me in the world.. thankyou

[@janferry-axman7268]

Just found you and happy to see another spiritual nature nut! LOVE YOUR videos! I love the encouragement and sharing.

[@gabrielg.2401]

These are truly wonderful videos for the world. They are precious.

[@kgrandchamp]

Loved this video Zoe! Very touched by your sensitivity and openness to the natural world and the inner spiritual abodes! thanks! :)

[@celticspirit1]

We mountain bikers love trees and care for them on our trails. New England has beautiful forests. I feel that the trees are looking out for me during my solo rides.

[@GreenGino]

I have heard them cry it was horrifying. And scared me for a long time.

[@Nate1975]

SMiled all the way through it. Infectious energy

[@AllGoodIIV]

What a beautiful soul 😍💚

[@CH4RM_QU4RK]

The more humanity has learned about the world, the less we have seemed to connect with it

[@johngrae2946]

From my experience with communicating with trees it is all to do with feelings and consciousness.

[@victorramosjr.521]

We are the trees and they are us.😎..❤️🙏🏽i Love your videos. Fairies are my beloved family..Thankyou. Bless all..

[@vitomccartney]

Humans are unique because we have more passages to other dimensions. Such as the dimension where love comes from or the dimension that evil comes from. We are a medium that no other living thing has so many pathways to other dimensions. If you listen with your mind, you can find the vibrations that plants communicate. You can see with your third eye the spaces they occupy, and you can feel their nature and the fabric in which they were manifested. You can feel healing properties and poisons within them if you sense their energy and their being. Thank you

[@theotherguy4957]

[@theotherguy4957]

BTW - a time after - with the same tree (apple) I allso got really scared. WAO!!!! this is for real!

[@ZoeEccles]

Oh my gosh, what a fun little synchronicity! I am literally listening to the Lord of the Rings soundtrack right now, just as I saw your comment ✨😄🌳🌿! Ah, yes, I think Tolkien was really onto something with that idea of trees talking slower than other beings. I loved your little saying, I wish I could read it in Swedish ~ the part about the spaceship intrigues me 😋. Thank you for sharing!

[@HuMaHuMHuM]

@@ZoeEccles I think the communication is a fundamental aspect of everyting. For example, I tried for about 8 months going to the tallest tree in a huge landscape, at the same time every day to see what it had experienced. I did't get anyting more then dissapointment, and restrictions. I walkt the forest around, checkt the whater, fed the animals etc - nothing worked - that was really sad. So I just gave up on that:'( (At lest got really good shoos out of that, coz I needed them for the hiking, but the shoos will last a lifetime - hehe!)

[@cablenelsonbabygrandpiano842]

I like 🌳. Thank you!

[@spacedimensia]

On the land I grew up on, we had a beautiful dogwood tree, that had wide branches, and bloomed so pretty and white. We would sit under it to play in the summer, and it was always where the family would gather on pretty evenings, for pictures. It had as much of a presence as a family member. In the winter, our pets and wild deer would sit under it, out of all the snow, and looked very pristine, away from the rest of the woods, on the top of a long, steep hill overlooking golden grass. I remember it not as much from my mind's eye, I was very young, as much as I would ask my parents what kind of tree it was, because I wanted to remember. Even now I have old photos from 20 or so years ago of us in summer dresses, our hair long and a little wild, under the dogwood tree. When I was much younger than I feel now, still getting to know myself, and the craft, and what kind of person and witch I wanted to be, I was looking so hard to find tools that spoke to me, and things that I might feel a connection to, work through, and feel those fleeting feelings of energy and connectedness that I think all of us seek on some level with the craft. I was shopping for a wand, as at that time I did not think to make my own, and didn't think I would like as much. I had been looking for two years, by now, but hadn't found the right fit. But then I saw it, a piece called "Snowy Dogwood" and even though it was not the prettiest wand, or the most elegant, had to it an heir of mystery or a lacquer finish, I kept going back, because that tree I remembered, and that tree had a meaning to me that was the same as home. I think it's important to know trees, and as important to remember the ones we grow up around. For me the crab apples, the beeches, the ash trees were important to me because they spoke about the place I lived in a way that didn't have words, things I still look back to now, things I drum upon where I live now, as I try my best to recapture the wonder of my youth living in beautiful places, seeing the majesty of the land with fresh eyes, to connect like I did years ago. It's a journey I'm going on now, as this year comes in, and the earth warms. This is such an inspiring video, to want to know those trees and plants that want to speak to you, and learn from them what we can. I think that treating them with the respect we'd treat a friend, meeting with them, and getting to know them is a profound idea that should be as simple as this, getting close to nature on the level of the spirits that live here among us so silently. I hope I can listen like you do, Zoe. You're such a lovely person to listen to, you're so honest and inspired, it re-energizes a part of me that I feel like I lose sometimes. Thank you so much!

[@ZoeEccles]

You may have single-handedly restored a smidgen of the faith I held in people who practice magic with this comment ✨🥺😭! Seriously though, it’s been a bitter time recently, with so many of my “spiritual” friends turning to insidious and harmful alt-right ideologies, leaving me questioning my own place in the spiritual community, and whether I even want to be a part of it. And all I keep coming back to is the solitary practice I knew in childhood - the innate belief I held in the ineffable magic of nature, and the way it made me feel. Makes me feel. You captured that so perfectly with your words here - I know exactly what you mean when you say that many of us in the craft are simply looking for that fleeting feeling of connection and wonder ⚡️. Thank you so much for sharing your story of this dogwood tree with me, love ♥️. It had me smiling 😊, and you have inspired me, in turn.

[@maddoxs9841]

i know im 10 months late to this video but god is the intro stunning.

[@paulafloeter]

Very beautiful video:) Your voices is very calming. I love listening to you.🕊🌱🌲

[@imanicosmic9428]

Dear Zoey, talking with trees is not silly and I do believe in fairies as well ▼・ᴥ・▼

[@spiritualaries4500]

I walk around n my 🚨 ndominium and on the road within the development I ride my bike or walk close to the trees n I pray under the trees n say hello to them when I walk. I began to get very close to the trees and need to now walk close to them when I feel out of sorts in everyday life. I felt better n could walk for hours n talk to god n the trees around me I can't explain. Hi ow I felt but I was always blessed with abundance on those days.

[@BadassBobY]

Title : *How To talk To Trees* Me Who Can't Even Talk To Humans Properly : 🙊

[@sacramentallyill]

Beautiful video

[@margaretmarykingfisher]

Thank you for this I am just beginning my journey on this and you have helped me a lot confirming what I have been feeling and thinking

[@annaawakens7300]

Totally adoring this, Zoe!

[@arandomhuman7422]

I see the same things that your friend sees I see faces everywhere I go when I'm in nature

[@Acquisition1913]

Excellent video has inspired me to fix a platform up in oak tree and/or zip line in my yard. :-)

[@lucasvanroemburg2478]

What a wonderful person you are.

[@theotauriainen1193]

Idk how I got to this video from researching a game but I like it nonetheless

[@stephaniegrabreck7379]

I love your form of strange

[@IsaManzana]

Hug Them ❤

[@ceramiclight2887]

I'm glad you came back. Trees near cities might be wondering why humans use electric lights instead of the light from their souls :) (A spiritual joke)

[@lunaluxe2256]

Hope you are doing well Zoe 💜

[@cldeeey7242]

Its make sense about your polite reaction of bees from my personal experience Can I ask, Tree itself like as spirit or attachment with?

[@AineMar]

How I missed to hear you talk 💕

[@ZoeEccles]

Aine, I wish I could talk with you in person over a cup of tea (or five 😋✨🍵!) Sending you so much love through the ethers 🙏🏽💌!

[@AineMar]

Zoe Eccles if we ever see each other in person, I won’t forget to find ourselves a cute tea shop for us to talk our witchy a*ses off ✨💕

[@lunarrose9290]

The thing i struggle with is being stil and quiet and being able to receive messages and answers

[@enchantingmoon7445]

Smashed that like button 👍🧚‍♂️🌛🌎

[@michaeljackson8390]

💜🍰🍉❄

[@pancakesyrupking]

Understond

[@albertsears7805]

Hello Zoe I love your videos An please don’t stop making them . Especially the one on one with nature an yes the fairies 🧚‍♀️ 🧚‍♀️🧚‍♀️ to even the ghost stories I want to share something with you have you ever come in counter with people that have past in the next life and had talk with you in your dreams . Dreams are different for me sometimes I can see a little earlier before it happens . Was wondering if you had this to 😀

[@vineetasharmamohan8036]

I have a tree friend. It really tells me many facts

[@sheeltanagaich9030]

Do you also think that you can also talk to tress like me. I really talk to trees from I was 5.

[@Schmingle38]

I have a small tree in my garden, think im a bit older than it. Does the age of the tree matter? Just curious!

[@Arrian1111]

You resemble Gemma Artetons' 'Tess of the Durbervilles' so much. That tale is set in the rural West Country of England.

[@pancakesyrupking]

Wand and Stauff

[@arandomhuman7422]

I've never talk to a tree and I'm going to try to but I have seen so many creatures that I know it's possible

[@ganeshvanakkammahalingam4363]

Vanakkam nandri

[@mecosario9022]

Hmm the dangly bits on your dress make nature trekking look hard lol

[@ZoeEccles]

Hahaha, you are completely correct! The things that go into making a pretty video like that are actually ridiculously comical. I kept tripping up on the edge of my dress while trying to walk uphill for one of the shots. And don’t even get me started on how hard it is to take the dang thing off after wearing it - the struggle is real 😂 (look up old medieval paintings of people trying to get their clothes off, and you will see a pretty accurate representation of me in the forest that day). I only wore the dress for a very small section of that walk - for the purposes of taking photos. The rest of the time it was stuffed into my backpack and I was wearing normal clothes.

[@ganeshvanakkammahalingam4363]

My amma seeping in trees 🌳

[@indraswarisekar9474]

miss u!

[@jovanapopovic1272]

I love your voice

[@ganeshvanakkammahalingam4363]

Nandri

[@noneofyourbusinez]

You are amazing! why aren't there more women like you?!

[@crebler]

I am very close to mordern earth=) I can talk to animals/trees/spirits and se them

[@mariesonalet2593]

oh please do of fairies

[@donaldpype7018]

Doesn't seems silly at all. After my Botenay class I realized how the woods was a living breathing Oganism.

[@pancakesyrupking]

Must have bean

[@mohansatyavibs0215]

I want to talk with trees very excitedly but I can't please say...

[@pancakesyrupking]

Paust experiences

[@dalepetty9843]

some of us like myself listen...i like to listen to you zoey...your very awsome so 20 mins isn't enough jk lol

[@dalepetty9843]

videos????

[@ToffeeHamsters]

Zoe!!

[@muurreidnetwork9868]

You Are So Beautiful!!

[@busisiwemabuza8771]

Master Oogway has Motivated me To Believe Nd Be friends with a Tree

[@christianevans2956]

You sound like how Hermione SHOULD sound

[@starseedjoffi3ll906]

Nice meeting you to day. Just wish idonovan didnt have to counsil challenge, our bright n beautiful oppastion. He would of loved to talk n get to know you. We found you first bty. Your royal 😉

[@starseedjoffi3ll906]

Hope all is well ms millina Im told puch was necisassy to much maya love.

[@gabrielradha4186]

I tried 77 times and i cannot talk with trees why how did you ???!!!!.

[@Jubilee_BX]

You can. Just hug them, say thank you, send them your love and then be still and listen..dont rush them. They will tell you what you need to know.

[@jaydusik317]

Love the video but her accent threw me off cause it sounds American than English 😂 love this

[@mailninja6938]

♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️

[@ganeshvanakkammahalingam4363]

Nandri