The Secret Language of Trees

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Producer: Brian McManus ( / realengineering )
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From Nothing Everything by Kevin Graham
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References:
[1] www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/...
[2] www.amnh.org/exhibitions/dino...
[3] pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15503...
[4] www.britannica.com/science/fu...
[5] www.sciencedirect.com/topics/...
[6] www.nature.com/articles/s4159...
[7] www.jstor.org/stable/2434626?...
[8] www.nature.com/articles/41557
[9] journals.plos.org/plosone/art...
[10] www.ted.com/talks/suzanne_sim...
[11] mothertreeproject.org/about-m...
[12] onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/f...

[@realscience]

There's actually 3 trillion trees... I was just testing you all...

[@Savant_Ananya]

I failed the test 😅

[@primate_0]

I got three seconds in and was like... wait.. what? I had to google it.. lol I was like, there is no way humans outnumber trees!

[@UkranianStallion]

LUL

[@AndrewMellor-darkphoton]

hi

[@rajashashankgutta4334]

But how will we identify these mother trees?

[@justalittleoff-grid1180]

As a geologist, I can attest to this based on the fossil record but it wasn't trees that gave the planet its oxygen. It was a variant of algae that yielded out breathable oxygen and it still does today. Trees are not actually that efficient at producing oxygen. We should all take the time to not only thank the trees but that green goo growing in the ocean as well - without it you wouldn't be here.

[@malinhurtadomacario263]

Is that algae Plankton? I've been investigating plankton for some days now and I've learnt how important they are to life on Earth, however I don't seem to find enough information on them so it's kind of difficult to understand how this organisms work. I would be glad if you could recommend me some books on the topic or any type of resource, have a nice day :))))

[@kilianschmitt9658]

@@malinhurtadomacario263 Yes it‘s Phytoplancton. Mostly Cyanobacteria, since they are one of the oldest Organisms on earth, appearing ~2,5 billion years ago.

[@naqiyahmulachelah5668]

@@malinhurtadomacario263 this one should help kzbin.info/www/bejne/p3a1lX9uqq2Gnas&ab_channel=PBSEons :)

[@malinhurtadomacario263]

@@kilianschmitt9658 Thanks for the info! Have a nice day :)))

[@malinhurtadomacario263]

@@naqiyahmulachelah5668 Thanks! I'll definetely check it out ;)✨

[@zakleclaire1858]

Seems like science is *slowly* realizing what Indigenous people have know for generations.

[@larcomj]

Now we just need the rest of the population to understand this.

[@Lyle-xc9pg]

You mean ooga booga superstitions? Yeah of course they new about molecular interactions

[@morearthanhuman]

Eh more like pushing lies man.

[@Felix-M.]

💯

[@truthaboutcabbage]

No, it's just this video is an ideological and mythological story, like folk knowledge. This video isnt science or science reporting. Its misinformation.

[@user-ho4nw5sf3w]

When I was a child many years ago, I grew up in a yard that had five black walnut trees in it(good size yard) There was only a couple of other trees in the yard. A couple of plum trees, no other trees grew there. I found this strange because right across the street from us was a yard ringed by oak trees and the only other tree growing near them was an apple tree. I come from a long line of German wood workers. We make our living from wood and from our knowledge of it. That knowledge starts at the tree. I asked my father about this seperation of Oaks and Walnut trees. He told me at the time 50 years ago, that the trees release chemicals into the soil to stop other trees from growing. He also told me, we aren't the only ones who make a living from trees. So do squirrels. Squirrels plant trees and my Dad said they know where to plant them, and that they tend them like a garden. They will cut down saplings from other trees. I love trees. I am a child of the woods. I grew up in the woods. In the summer my Grampa would take me to cruise the trees to see which ones if any would be harvested in the fall. Dad took me squirrel hunting in the fall,winter ,spring, summer, he was there and hungry. Ma and my Aunt's would take tap maples, and in the winter, a boy could get lost in the forest and find his way out following the track. Trees have secrets but if you sit and listen to them they will tell them to you. Like the time the walnut tree complain to me about being the last tree in the spring to get it's leaves. So I asked him about how he felt about being the first tree in the fall to loose their leaves. Said he didn't like that either.

[@adityganguly4021]

Lucky to be amongst trees I wish and pray I had that luck all my life.

[@TDashem]

I see that you also smoke trees:-)

[@kristijanakristijanic]

This is so nice story!❤😊

[@novaste1238]

You're a great story teller❤

[@user-ho4nw5sf3w]

@@novaste1238 I may be a good story teller, but the trees, they will tell you better stories.

[@newyorknewyork6904]

One day i was walking in the park and I saw a tree trunk all covered with termite. It was a young tree and I was afraid it may die. I spent a long time removing the termite. Made sure it be termite free. Next day I was passing by it and tree shivered from tip to toe. It was rhythmic and musical. I looked at other trees next to it and not a leaf was moving. Since then I love them even more. They communicate

[@Lovexeverful]

Yes they comunícate between them and with universe

[@davidgray9897]

Bro that story made me feel good !!! Thankyou ...

[@connierichie5336]

That is awesome you saved the little fella. More so, it thanked you. Im growing an avocado tree. Its still young yet. I've always known if you talk to your plants, they grow better. Its the vibration. Whenever I do this, I can see its leaves move. We call him "Joe". Avocado Joe. 😉

[@AntonHdz]

you're lucky termite can't hold a grudge

[@nikzane]

@@connierichie5336 Haha, "Avocado Joe" is the best thing I've read all day. Please say hi to Avo Joe for me! 👋😀🥑🌳

[@CyPhi68]

As a Forestry major, I appreciate this. Look up shinrin yoku, freely translated as "forest bathing". We may not be directly connected to the trees, but being surrounded by them, being among them has a positive affect on our mental and physical health.

[@taitsmith8521]

College graduates are destroying the world, not indigenous people. Their is nothing beneficial at that circle jerk of a "school" you attend.

[@teresitaviera3000]

Por eso es terrible que prendan fuego al cerro frente a mi casa, en Capilla del Monte Córdoba, ARGENTINA. Se siente un dolor, profundo, tres dias ardiendo x los 4 costados imposible que haya sido la naturaleza, es mano del hombre y muchos. Y el olor...a cosa viva quemada... Ahora lo miro , roca quemada.😢

[@rimmaten9052]

Totally agree! Also I’m sure trees protect environment from toxins

[@patriciajrs46]

That's wonderful.

[@jwbrown9240]

It's because trees are smart enough to praise him who made them, the creator. Unlike us humans

[@oldsoul3733]

Watched a video about tree root systems in the forests of north America and Canada. They were communicating with one another despite being many miles apart it was mindblowing. Environmentalists are often called tree huggers. Hug a large tree and you can feel the vibrations and humming coming from within the tree. Trees are so awesome and precious 🙏🙏🙏

[@estebanperez4632]

Idk about the whole feeling the vibrations. Stop doing hallucinogens while hiking

[@windigo1592]

@@estebanperez4632 actualy they are right if you hug a big tree you can hear the wood working under its weight

[@barbaradurr4170]

@@estebanperez4632 vielleicht benötigst du irgendwelche Substanzen, damit du aufwachst und mit anderem Lebewesen in Kontakt kommst. Nur nicht neidisch werden auf Menschen, welche schon soweit sind und in die Kommunikation mit Pflanzen und Bäumen einzusteigen.

[@JohnSmith-lg2ie]

When someone calls me a tree hugger I tell them they should try it sometime.

[@szymonbaranowski8184]

it's just taking drugs and overload of mutations from eating inhumane diet causing you hearing things... also called mental illness

[@margaretlocke7938]

They do have a secret language. I have always known this. So have indigenous people. I am a huge support for trees

[@Katherine-zi6mw]

I am dubious about the claim that communication between trees was only "discovered" in the 1980's... as a child my Grandfather spoke about this and described the process of chemical signals and the underground network of communication through mycelium of fungii. This was over 60 years ago!

[@timetobenotdo]

Thousands of years. Disconnection from intuitive knowledge began around turn from bc to ad, and peaked sometime in this past century. Hopefully it’s all coming around and we can (re)integrate before the planet is wrecked to the point of no return. The arrogance and immaturity of the religiously science minded is like a teenager that gets some intel from their parents and then sometime later gets the same thing from another source and values and believes it. But it’s a natural process hahahah. Either way, it’ll be fine.

[@Katherine-zi6mw]

@@timetobenotdo yes either way it will be fine! G.pa also told me that eventually the expansion of the Sun will render Planet Earth uninhabitable and really the art of life is to do no harm while we are here... and this is the edict I have lived by all my life. Thank you for your response Matthew.

[@MsTruthseeker999]

Yeah that seems to happen a lot these days, things we knew decades ago are suddenly 'discovered by scientists' today, I find it really disturbing!

[@abigailmckernwalkingwithpo4582]

I love your Grandfather!

[@Katherine-zi6mw]

@@abigailmckernwalkingwithpo4582 thank you! He was a wonderful man. He lost his entire leg in the Battle of the Somme in 1916 at the age of 23 and went on to raise 3 daughters who all became professionally qualified in medicine and education, he did this long before the Welfare State existed and without the aid of "trauma therapy", he just got on with life and made the most of the hand he had been dealt. His life story is fascinating... I have written about it for my surviving sons and my Granddaughter... so they can draw on his wisdom and fortitude.

[@paulcooper8818]

Not sure if trees can talk, but they do bark

[@jonathanmatthews4774]

I see what you did there

[@julienceaser4018]

Ba dum tsss

[@statewidefilms]

That joke was almost lost . My grandfather sold that joke to Elton .

[@Aquamayne100]

Top tier Dad joke lol

[@AnakinSkyobiliviator]

Leaf them alone and they might!

[@RohitPant04]

You are doing a fabulous job bringing this amount of knowledge to us for free. I am a Zoology MS student & i recommend these videos from you to my young nephew who equally enjoys them. ThankYou for your continous efforts!

[@0marabdi209]

Muslims know that tree talks. one of the miracles of prophet Mohamed is that he talked to a tree which justifies his prophet hood

[@RohitPant04]

@@0marabdi209You are either confusing chemical communication/signalling with actual talking or maybe you've taken some ahistorical elements quite seriously! Whichever way it is, i wish you find your way back to *real science* soon.

[@bruhguy4215]

@@0marabdi209 what the actual f**k

[@prosecutor10]

my botany prof and i dont buy the hype. zoology is pretty different.

[@prosecutor10]

for e.g. that same fungi in excess can act parasitic and not be symbiotic, placing its needs over a hosts. Which, nevertheless, also has nothing to do with different tree species giving things to each other so they both feel better. That the funghi is moving the minerals was completely brushed over, this video just screams click bait & anthropomorphization . . Plants have always reacted to their environment, but branding it as talking fuels the extremists. Edit: and after min10 theres the politics shoe-horned into the science smh

[@hotchihuahua1546]

I am in awe of trees and have been since I was a kid ! Climbing them as far up as I could to see above the canopy and horizon. To make tools by whittling shapes with a pocket knife. To plant them in my yard for their beauty . To marvel at their artistic root shapes and find drift wood to add in my home as artwork ! To tear when a large tree comes down ! I love trees ! ❤

[@seanstehura7179]

I talk to trees and exchange energy with them. Makes me happy. Trees are my friends.

[@unmothered333]

I want to do this.

[@daniell1483]

It is kind of reassuring to know that trees are able to withstand extinction events so well. It means that after humans are gone, the trees will pick up the pieces and regenerate their forests.

[@rasmiranjansamal610]

Cause humans (not all) are hell bent to make other species to go extinct 😂

[@daniell1483]

@Rivoningo Baloyi I don't wish for humanity to go extinct. I just don't trust our capacity to not destroy ourselves over the long term. We can't even manage our own population in a sustainable manner; how much worse will we be with emerging threats like AI, ecological collapse, industrial pollution in our water supplies, pandemic-level pathogens, and of course old school threats like a nuclear apocalypse? Maybe we will stick the landing with all the challenges the future threatens us with, I'd be very glad if we do. It is just so much easier to imagine it going pear shaped. Hope that answers your question.

[@LoveLeigh313]

@Rivoningo Baloyi that’s your own projection and trigger

[@daniell1483]

@Rivoningo Baloyi For what it is worth, I really hope you are right.

[@argonaught5666]

@@rivoningobaloyi3301 because they hate people.

[@pelayogarcia8948]

Alone the shipment of "hello fresh" has a larger environmental footprint than throwing some cream away... Just go to your local market, buy organic food and avoid any unnecessary container.

[@WebmediArt]

Yeah, that additional packaging is quite contrary to the message and leaves a really bad aftertaste. But in the end you kinda have to hate the system not the messenger, don't you? I really don't know.

[@Skeware]

I agree with that. That's also one of the reasons why I have resisted the recent boom of meal delivery services - I really hate the additional waste of packaging and the unnecessary fuel burning (when the delivery is by motorcycle). I even avoid to takeaway myself unless it's absolutelly necessary.

[@erichoskins9155]

Oh my God I was hoping someone had said something about this 😅 this ad was laughable and a serious downer…

[@ronwesilen4536]

In my country (Spain) it would be absolutely mental to buy delivery food. It seems stupid for me. Although to be fair a lot of American stuff is stupid from our point of view

[@chinookvalley]

@@ronwesilen4536 I live here (USA) and it IS stupid. Some people are easily swayed into thinking things are better than they actually are, and will pay more to use more useless, impractical products, than to look at the whole picture. Our education system sucks, too. Shows don't it?

[@romans1227]

I remember when I was in my 20s I always liked to ingest shrooms and go for long walks in the forest. I always saw the life and even personality of different plant lives. This included many trees, and I understood that no two trees are the same. That gave me a whole new perspective on all living organisms.

[@Catalystresource]

Not only do I hug trees but I thank them for all that they've done for us and I know they have the intelligence to understand that because even in the 1970s there was a book written called The Secret Life of Plants, which you all here would enjoy. I use them when I really need to ground my energy and be more in my body, when I have a lot of stress I want to unload or an emotional burden. Just lay against that tree trunk and let it all go and ask her to send it back into the fiery core of the earth. It's like free therapy!

[@hotchihuahua1546]

Nature is theropy we often overlook . It’s an escape from our busy lives to look at the face of God and his creation ! ❤️

[@tsukuyomirai4823]

I feel happy whenever I go to forest. Triggers the millions of years suppressed instinct, thinking I AM HOME. These forests are our actual homes.

[@jirisalamoun2297]

Do you climb?

[@anyascelticcreations]

Same. I feel very homesick without forests. It is where I belong

[@kerra3699]

I have made it through some very tuff times in my life by leaning back against a tree and watching its neighbours sway. It gives me comfort.

[@tsukuyomirai4823]

@@kerra3699 you are stronger to make it through. Lots of love to you.

[@truthaboutcabbage]

How so? They aren't where we come from? Not that where we come from represents a more authentic home, everywhere we go and survive--human habitats, those are our homes. Humans have always lived close together and have always sheltered as best we could. That is still how we live because it's what worked. We've just gotten better at it and can adapt more and more resources to our needs in more and more complex and sophisticated ways. Enjoying nature, liking to hike or camp in a forest, which is often really beneficial for our mental and physical health, doesnt need to entail boogeyman fictions about us being awful or fallen from our state of grace--enviromentalist so frequently spin the same yarn that the dominant religions spun for the last several thousand years. Like joni mitchels song, go to get us back to the garden. Alwsys with the going back. Thats human too i guess, to be timid, opposed to change, wanting to stay safe and traditional-Conservative. We do best when we cooperate,figuring on strategies that employ both our conservative leanings and our bolder liberal leanings.

[@eugeniajuarez9387]

If we adopt a pet, let's adopt a tree. If we give love and hugs. Let's give love and hugs to the trees. A very sincere suggestion. We depend and need nature. Well, nature needs us too. Let's demonstrate our love and respect for nature ❤

[@barbaraolson600]

Tress also like water, food, fertilizer, soil and lots of love as pets need. We need to stop selling forests, as Trump sold for lumber to foreign countries, Brazil burned the rain forest to make room for cattle. I rarely eat meat, I loved to hike and enjoy trees but buildings can be built with waste and soil, pets and I enjoy trees. Pets need homes, many trees need an Orchard or a forest!

[@butterqueen767]

I was today years old when I was taught to adopt a tree

[@michaelturnage3395]

How old are you?

[@nabhchandra_]

nature doesn't need us lol. like George Carlin said, "the *planet* isnt going anywhere, WE ARE!"

[@peterquibell9773]

I hug my trees

[@dhilukshansugumaran28]

This is the real Aiwa sahelu of trees... They can't talk but they can listen and response us when we make the pure Bond. It's not just a theory It's more beyond that...

[@rolfs5854]

My grandfather was a forester. Once he showed me an area where they did reforest (around 1975). He explained to me that it is important to keep some of the big trees to give shadow to the newly planted trees, so they could grow better. I was confused because the big trees were too little to give an efficient shadow. Now I think the reason is not the shadow. They were on the right track but had the wrong explanation.

[@slaphappybullet]

Stuff like this makes me think maybe it’s not such a wild idea that hallucinogenics are really the plants and fungi communicating with us. I did ayahuasca last year, and at one point I felt like I was breathing in every tree that ever lived. I couldn’t describe it any other way. I also realized upon coming home and going on a hike that looking up through the leaves of trees was very reminiscent of the geometrical patterns you see while under the influence of ayahuasca.

[@Liliquan]

It is a crazy idea.

[@domenhitrec3288]

I agree, after we consumed psilocybin with my friends, we hugged trees and I felt like they were alive and realised the complex geometrical structure of this organisms. I never felt the same about plants and trees after that experience.

[@terryrollins1973]

I believe this also, I think this is why DMT is present in all plants, it's a means of communication that most humans do not understand

[@buc991]

agree, once i did psilocybe mushrooms at night alone in the forest and i was able to see this glowing energies going through trees, plants, and connections between all trees in forest and also all universe and felt connected also

[@whysoserious6231]

I cut down banana tree twice in this life and I regret it. It feel's like communicating to me to stop and I felt it's crying. I hope in the future we can clone other organism like plants, trees and even poultry animals. No need to consume or destroy but rather just copy it's properties.

[@RobinHood-lz2wj]

I would like to see a similar work about grasses and grasslands. As great as trees are, grasses are even more significant in carbon sequestration. The prevailing agricultural model - purely extractive has created many great deserts. But the grasslands can be restored - regenerated. How do we protect and restore that vital resource?

[@hollythomas7582]

Good question and you just thought something that seems so obvious yet I have not once thought about our vanishing grasslands. I’m afraid I can’t answer that but man, now I’ve go to find more information! Thanks for posing the question brother… gosh, a year ago!

[@janiceshayne8193]

@@hollythomas7582 Permaculture!!!! - Regenerative farming. It's all over the internet and youtube and ted talks, and being taught since the 1970s but now being taught in Universities all over the world. SAVE THE PLANET with Permaculture - very realistic. Watch the documentary, "Kiss the Ground" - You'll be happy you did!

[@eustaciogriego1912]

Nature can be wonderful if we treated fair. Central America was once Marsh land taken care by buffalo that roam free from Canada to Mexico much like the Serengeti in Africa , early settlers to America were the first to see the grasslands and they were amazed.

[@szymonbaranowski8184]

enough to mix grass with friendly species and not overgrazing letting animals fertilise it and grass to reach deeper in soil but mental people decided to replace natural mechanics with own oversimplified cycles corn grows in the same place with minimal chemical fertilisation they didn't even spared hill tops with less oxygen in air leaving natural forests there they won't spare any land except if plan to remove human from there entirely to dig for something

[@alliswell794]

My heart is totally shattered to see them cutting those trees… 💔

[@MiaKatharine]

I know me too. I hate seeing it. Where I live it's all over too. Its so sad.😢

[@CG-qk1zs]

Same 😔

[@lovemotherearth3805]

Me too trees 🌳 are our lungs 🫁 of the earth 🌎 breathing in out with each season

[@JQ3B94]

They be sharing memes like we can't imagine

[@deathsnitemaresinfullust2269]

i love watching these mushrooms bloom 4:39 when the mesh is being formed, the patterns are always so uniquely beautiful.👍

[@ygggaming951]

I had a feeling as a kid the movie "Princess Mononoke" was a true story!

[@Aquamayne100]

I didn't even think of that but you're right, that was a great anime movie.

[@jindipity4772]

I just watched that movie yesterday, my favourite ❤️

[@ghostnation9642]

I always liked Miyazaki's movies.

[@ygggaming951]

So did I..........So did I......

[@perlefisker]

Very touching. I hope humans soon will have more humble ideas about their knowledge.

[@huntresskira]

Us humans must learn from the way trees communicate. In fact we do this already as empaths, simply by loving, and being kind to one another. We become our own network, helping one another and sharing resources or even food for thought! Isn't that nicer than competing for personal gain? We want to thrive like forests!! Not just to survive.

[@szymonbaranowski8184]

are you more empathic to own ethnic group and kin? otherwise you do against what trees do

[@noeljonsson3578]

As someone who loves the forests this is amazing.

[@xymoriintus]

Love that you showed so many ghost pipe! That's a fungi that is kind of swept under the rug doesn't get too much attention. You should google it, it's a special plant/fungi

[@bobking7347]

learned more in this one video than though most of my time in school, simply incredible... That trees communicate like this.

[@angeec.3312]

There are trees which have been around for thousands of years. They have the secret to survival. One example was one of the oldest trees which shed a large (healthy) branch in the very dry season. Scientists concluded that it was the tree's way of conserving water, to save itself. The life of trees makes for very interesting reading. Know your planet.

[@mochardiansah7452]

This is absolutely amazing. It proves the more we learned, the less we know. This channel deserves more subscribers

[@roberttaylor58]

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[@alexxdeloach4947]

I think the channel here will get the attention it deserves. They have done great on everything they've produced for it.

[@1x0x]

@@alexxdeloach4947 unless they get shadow banned lol

[@reccajulnebongo4812]

As a Forestry Major, I appreciate this at the same time I am also amaze. Since I didn't know that there is already a vast of communication happening right under our feet that trees are already sharing resources passing on warnings and passing down information over other trees. Since entirely I thought that trees only compete which is like a society that only the fittest can survive the chain but I was wrong after seeing this video. Indeed this video truly open to another perspective and point.

[@flowstate2394]

Your voice, the way you talk about this stuff, its so calm and intelligent. i like it a lot.. i could listen to it for ages

[@statewidefilms]

This was the story line in the movie Avatar.. And I thought you were going to be boring but you really are a Fun Gi !

[@SnoopyDoofie]

7:00 The Tree Muskateers - All for one and one for all.

[@philippepommier4638]

Trees are so special specially the big old ones,when you connect to them with contact feeling the streght, it's a special vibe transfer directly to my tame industrial state of being to pure nature and hard to describe but feel so good to be.

[@christinabarrett]

I normally only watch things once, but this is the second time I've seen this, & it still amazes me. I keep skipping back, so I can ponder on what's being said & it warms me inside, how our world is connected. You make the best content...💯👍 Thanks!

[@TheOzarkWizard]

So when we see these massive groves of trees dying next to the farmland, could it be because we are killing the fungi with pesticides?

[@oliviarackley1503]

possibly. good observation!

[@DrewNorthup]

That is possible, though most pesticides aren't fungicides (fungi don't have nervous systems). The herbicides in use (EG glyphosate, AKA Roundup) can also cause massive damage, and some herbicides may have fungicidal properties or be combined with broad-spectrum fungicides.

[@nathanlevesque7812]

presumptive

[@kaitlyn__L]

Screwing up the local water table in industrial agriculture is probably more plausible.

[@Dragrath1]

@@DrewNorthup Yeah agricultural fungicides are also unfortunately heavily used to combat fungal diseases which are prevalent in plants. This comes with a wide share of downsides for one the disruption of mycorrhiza networks which is tied into the substantial nutrient depreciation of food crops seen since the onset of the so called "green revolution"

[@shrutimarathe9655]

This is the kind of content i was looking for. ENGAGING narration, GREAT FLOW and awesome.presentation. Kudos to the team!!

[@IndiaSierraPapaYankee]

Thank you I really deeply enjoyed this. So much info and value here.

[@eciellordan9656]

As a forestry student, I was impressed and thankful for this amazing videos.It gives me a lot of lesson and learn more knowledge about trees and forest in our planet.

[@e.l.france5136]

The longest relationships I've had with any other living being has been trees. And absolutely they can tell us of their life stories never with either malice or judgement for the unconscious human errors towards them.

[@griff404]

trees can't tell us their stories

[@starsinthesummersky]

Maybe some of you should be ridding yourselves from nature as material things are more important even if you have to take from others!

[@soshanicey]

@@griff404they always have been and they always will

[@rijubhattarai1]

I'm a student of botany and i study about VAM arbuscular mycorrhiza and ectomycorrhiza... This needs to be shown to our entire class👍

[@symbioticape]

Trees already told me all of this but you've done a nice job of editing all this info together

[@ladellejash3098]

As a forestry student, it's really good to see a video like this. I appreciate the person who made this video share their know ledge about the language of trees

[@jeremiasrobinson]

I love knowledge-sharing channels like this. It is too bad that even here there are malicious trolls in the comment section.

[@whiteblack6865]

KZbin's main demographics aren't really sciencey people. Expect bad puns, jokes, and dumb fights on the top, and for quality discussions scroll far down.

[@epauletshark3793]

@@whiteblack6865 I like the bad puns.

[@TroenderTass]

@@whiteblack6865 You can't have a quality discussion on a presentation done by someone who clearly have no clue on what she is talking about, but just reads from a script. If you gonna use idiots to present scientific topics, make sure they at least have proper reading comprehension so that they at the very least can sound like they actully comprehend what they are reading, and not just reading out the words. AThis video is 2 minutes content expanded in a 15 minute video, and it suck to be honest. Here is all you need. kzbin.info/www/bejne/r4iyopivha6JiNE

[@whiteblack6865]

@@TroenderTass ??? How does that affect discussion? Of course she was reading a script. Did you really expect her to just adlib and they make a video content based on those adlibs? You're the type of person we shouldn't expect a quality discussion with, just like this.

[@kokolanza7543]

Hi Art by Jeremy Maya Robinson. I agree with you entirely. We humans are so immature, and the anonymity of the web removes any inhibitions some people have about rudeness. Stay positive! We need all the positive people we can get, and so do the trees.

[@gangefors]

"Seeing as that they can't get up and leave..." 🤣🤣🤣

[@alveolate]

leaf :)

[@eritain]

"The Ents are going to war."

[@mariekatherine5238]

Oh, I disagree! The locust tree in my friend’s front yard got up and left when the F-3 tornado passed by. We saw it go.

[@shannonschaerer1010]

A Forrest is really a Giant organism - and it Creates amazing ecosystems - Full of life. They way this knowledge is presented is gr8 to watch. I think it will teach things to almost everyone who watches it. Thank You!!

[@warrennewman7515]

As a horticulturist and landscape architect i have spent a lot of time in the understanding of which plants perform best over a long period of time especially in regenerating parklands where group plantings even in open spaces performed and grew stronger and faster than isolating single trees. The use of layering of species along with the pioneer sp.s like acacias for nitrogen fixation which in turn provides food for the longer living trees.

[@warrennewman7515]

Trees are the perfect representation of the term "As above so is as below "We definitely need to pay more attention to our carbon fixated friends!

[@paulcooper8818]

Excellent information in this video. I was aware of the idea but not the scientific evidence behind it. Land management seems to move rather slowly to new methodologies but, when proven effective, are likely be adopted.

[@RohitPant04]

*Trees:* _"Yup, we can talk!"_ *Bacteria Performing Quorum Sensing:* _"Hold my glycerol!"_

[@dash3995]

Wow this joke is to smart for me to understand

[@thanhvu2377]

Nah, They speak Vietnamese

[@dash3995]

@@thanhvu2377 hahahahaha

[@thanhvu2377]

@@dash3995 haven't u heard? We Vietnamese people evolved from trees

[@dash3995]

@@thanhvu2377 amazing

[@phoenixlight1111]

All jokes aside, I'm a genuine tree hugger. I feel them, and they feel me. Their energy is palpable for me, they feel like silent, observant beings. I've said since I was young that I feel that I'm a tree in human form. Trees are healers, and they are here and watching, even willing and sacrificing themselves as part of a much greater, Divine purpose, here to help us. Most don't even recognize this. I can walk past a tree and feel it's strength, it's comfort, it's awareness. I hug them when they are offering one, lol. Or when I'm depressed or sad, or when I feel happy and grateful. They truly are silent friends, offering so much to us in many ways. We just have to notice. I Love 🌳🌲🌴💓

[@FelipeKana1]

Amazing resume of these incredible findings.

[@JackSparrow-re4ql]

Looks like nature invented the Internet first.

[@drumkommandr9779]

Art imitates life, as always

[@brianrajala7671]

I thought Al Gore claimed to invent the internet?

[@j317]

@@brianrajala7671 nah it was big soulja

[@alexk.3769]

Nice tho

[@luismigueldominguezmartine9764]

Exactly ⚓

[@vitamink1028]

Trees helping out each other...nature is beautiful. (I know they indirectly do this to protect themselves, but let me have my moment)

[@geradosolusyon511]

Egoistic Altruism. Simply sweet.

[@Dragrath1]

Note that while there are great examples of altruism in nature the flipside is also true with the situation typically being somewhere in the middle. For example among the more nefarious uses by trees are Black Walnuts which are infamous for actively sabotaging the mycorrhizal networks with poisoned "gifts" that kill off other plant species. While some plants have mutualistic relationships with other species many plants are selfish altruists selectively helping out their own kind and sabotaging others in favor of their kin this is however balanced out as fungi work to counteract this typically preferring more diverse portfolios of donors.

[@maskedmoleproductions2684]

You could say the same thing about humans. On an individual level, yes, humans genuinely, usually, help each other out because we care about each other. But on a grander, evolutionary scale, we evolved to help each other out because it is beneficial to our species to do so.

[@user-gm7kv9oo3n]

As a forestry student, I was impressed, appreciate and thankful for this video because it can help me to gain more knowledge about trees.

[@RonakDhakan]

"However grateful foresters, poets and lumberjacks might be for their presence."

[@epauletshark3793]

And young children having adventures and climbing.

[@antonleimbach648]

The book “Overstory” is the most amazing book I’ve ever read about trees.

[@dogmom8668]

Also check out a book called The Golden Spruce. All about trees, history of logging and environmental movements surrounding a sacred tree with a genetic differentiation giving these rare trees golden needles. Very good. Another I have yet to read is called...Finding the Mother Tree

[@bonniegierach5027]

I watched or read about the language of trees a number of years ago. This video is sorta a remake of it. It was a excellent show back then, or book, I can’t remember.

[@SRtruth]

Tons of plastic isn't getting recycled so the most responsible thing to do is find a retailer that can send you bulk items not packaged in plastic. I like Azure Standard. All of the legumes, grains, seeds, and nuts come in paper, which is actually recycled in a lot of cases, but if it's not, at least it will naturally decompose. It also doesn't have a plastic lining on the inside which makes me really happy. You can also use your own cloth bags for fresh produce when you shop. I eat very little processed foods because it's not healthy and it always comes in plastic. If you eat a whole food plant based diet, you mostly will not be using a bunch of plastic if you order your food from a retailer using plant based packaging.

[@Dell-ol6hb]

It's so amazing how interconnected the life on our planet is

[@andyzhang7890]

Same, its mind-boggling. A bacteria probably sees a multicellular organism the same way we see an ecosystem. And an ecosystem, if it could see/ feel, would probably feel the same about the entire planet.

[@sharksareneat8723]

Too bad we're paving it over. But if we don't cut down all the trees and fill the atmosphere with CO2 then how do we make line on graph go up? Not very stonks if you ask me

[@lea-anne9133]

Yet human beings still fail to understand this simple fact

[@TheWorldHasGoneNuts]

This was probably the most uniquely informative and educational video that I have seen in at least 10 years. Bravo.🤯

[@michaeldoran4367]

Enormous 55" Chihuahua KOCK transplanted onto a man. 98" VEINY WRINKLED KOCK glistening in the moonlight. Beads of sweat drip down the shaft. The shiny tip continues to wave in the midnight air. Suddenly, the 98" KOCK prepares to enter a tight BIT WHOLE. BUT WHOLE DESTROYED. DEMOLISHED BUT WHOLE. BUT WHOLE WRECKED. BLOODY KOCK EXITS THE DEMOLISHED BUT WHOLE

[@brandyputnam5042]

Read finding the mother tree, it's mind blowing

[@aaronfauth6904]

Thank you so much for these videos! their just perfect. :)

[@benmaxinm]

Beautiful! I have learned so much ❤️. Thank you.

[@emmalilliestam1817]

Swedish clear cuts allways contain at least one big tree still standing. A seed pine I think it's called... I thought it was because it's cheaper to let it seed the area, didn't know about the other bene|its!

[@ceebake9596]

Mother trees!!! i was hoping you would have this in the video!

[@KavitaKumari-eu7du]

Awesome Explanation about trees and animation is also superb

[@colindeer9657]

Love trees !!!! So grateful to you for a necessary video. Long May it be shared bc the message is very important for everyone

[@aniksamiurrahman6365]

Now I know, we didn't even invent the internet, we just rediscovered a faster and unsustainable version of it.

[@bscud5717]

About to start my journey as an Arborist. This video makes me excited for my new path in life, but also aware that I have a lot to learn 😆

[@barbaradurr4170]

Das Lernen macht das Leben soo vielfältig und interessant. Da kann keine Langeweile aufkommen. Und gleichzeitig lernen wir auch etwas über soziales Verhalten der verschiedenen Arten untereinander und miteinander. Saint Exupery lässt den kleinen Prinzen sagen dass wir nur mit dem Herzen gut sehen können.

[@georgegoughnour1509]

At 36 years old, I’m realizing so much more than any other age. And what a time to be living in for knowledge!

[@yogawithdesta]

Thank you!!! This is such invaluable information!

[@chinookvalley]

A Hello Fresh ad? I'm bombarded with their ads already. Just mention them, that should suffice.

[@NormYip]

The Hello Fresh ad really doesn’t make any sense for creating less waste. I have been cooking on my own for one person and buying groceries in small quantities, not bulk. A container of sour cream? Buy a small tub and find complimentary recipes that uses most of it in several goes. Maybe a cake?

[@meganramos8724]

Amazing, thank you for this information.

[@Lilsyourfave]

This is the perfect vid to watch while high, and TREES ARE SOOOOOO UNDERRATED

[@theobserver9131]

This is really mind blowing! We are just beginning to understand the role of fungi in the natural world. It seems to me, that fungi are not only a transportation system for vital nutrients, it's also the Internet of the natural world, providing a means of communication between many forms of life. Taking a little step into Woo-woo land, it makes me wonder if the psychedelic properties of some mushrooms exist to help those of us who are not physically connected to other living beings communicate with the rest of the natural world. Based on my extensive experience with psychedelics, I am quite certain that that is true.

[@christinequinn5355]

This was one of the main theories of Terrence McKenna. He is dead now, but there are lots of his videos on KZbin. He was a genius.

[@kitsunesmask898]

I wonder, it would be wholesome

[@pauljhall]

Agreed, as I CONCURR.. Lol,I can honestly say,I've EXTENSIVE,.. and EVER EXPANDING experience, with psychodelucs,.psychedelics,.. as well.. I used to go sit ,and walk in the woods,deep lush,thick forest,my family's owned for generations, here in N.Florida, MY favorite time was after Dosing, ESPECIALLY, IN the SPRINGTIME, YOU CAN LITERALLY SEE FEEL,AND TASTE THE BEAUTIFUL ENERGY,JYST COMPLETELY SURROUNDING YOU.... IT USED TO BE SUCH A TREAT, ..THAT WAS IN HIGH SCHOOL, GRADUATED IN '92, SO.. BEEN A BIT, ..SINCE I'VE HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO DO THIS, JYST NOW BOUT SPRINGTIME, ...SO IM OVERDUE, GOOD STUFF, ..I DIG YOUR CHANNEL...

[@theobserver9131]

@@pauljhall I'm class of '84, but we're on the same page. Steady going my friend. Stay enthused, and stay cool. Don't get blown off course.

[@theobserver9131]

@@pauljhall I used to live in N. Fla. VA now. Can't handle trumpland anymore.

[@BrothermanBlue]

This Channel is a constant mind blow, it's truly amazing to see connections such as this and at least trying to better understand our place within it, no matter how large or small.

[@annettefowler4704]

Thank you for this knowledge.😊

[@MoRPho151]

Amazing!! Trees and mushrooms form a amazing kind of network, and fungi are closer to animals than trees.

[@christenandebrown]

Awesome video. Would love to see Hello Fresh treat it’s workers more fairly as we begin to care more about our environment. There’s so much we can learn from trees. Thanks for sharing.

[@RemiliaVampire]

I just noticed the "R#" at the corner of the screen stands for reference to read the articles yourself!!

[@mercedesescoto628]

Thank you for sharing this most important information.

[@TeffLone]

Wow this just made me understand so much about the plant 🌱

[@outdoorsy01]

Love the science behind this

[@earthling_parth]

Wow, this was eye-opening 🤯

[@ThomasButryn]

Wow, this is amazing, I had no idea trees communicated with each other and formed a community via the fungal networks. Great video, thank you for sharing..

[@19cosmo91]

It's funny how this was recommended to me when I was just thinking I need to look up how plants communicate. I'm growing strawberries indoors, and I noticed a rogue runner reaching around another plant, almost directly to a small pot where I anchored my 1st runner. The rogue runner even anchored itself by planting roots as if it followed the 1st runner but used a different route, and somehow knew there was a plant obstacle acting as a median. Wouldn't seem as weird if it hadn't bypassed the soil from the plant in the middle as if the 1st runner sent it directions.

[@Hitzel]

I was always under the impression that most of the "computing power" here comes from the fungi, not the tress, so it's more like the mushrooms that have a secret language.

[@MrNixtt]

No hardware useless software and the other way around.

[@darkhelmet12e47]

No the fungi is the messenger

[@THandP_org]

Maybe it would be more helpful to see it as the fungi benefit from healthy trees, so deliver the mail (messages) between trees. The trees benefit from healthy fungii, and share resources as the fungi deliver messages. The grandmother tree shares her information, passes along directions like "there's a forest fire coming, close up leaves, shift sap to the roots and water to the trunk to survive the fire" which the fungi pass along because destroyed trees will allow for soil erosion and destruction of the fungi. Of course, animals and insects see / smell the difference in the trees, and head away from the fire. It's almost like everything but the humans recognizes that we are all interconnected and damaging one, damages all.....

[@THandP_org]

@@humanbean7884 maybe I am misunderstanding? It sounds like you and I agree that interconnectedness used to be the norm, until a hierarchy was allowed to evolve [by humans] that interrupted our relationships with one another as well as with the planet around us. Are we both in agreement on that?

[@sajanpreetsingh9144]

Well done as always Stephenie👏 Btw Name of the song is corals under the sun It's so calming😌

[@pauliemomenee4113]

I have a very important question that could possibly be something more. It's about the phosphorus and nitrogen picked up by the fungi and if this network is as well existent on the edges of our tributaries and estuaries. Best regards, Paulie

[@BeyondTheMind007]

thoroughly enjoyed this. Thankyou

[@daisybackstar]

I live among humans, they think I'm a normal girl, but in fact I'm an alien plant, I'm imitating the human form, but in fact I'm a plant.

[@SequoiaBoy]

This was so profound I cried

[@myontanaka4326]

Thank you so much for this video, its really fascinating to learn how complex nature really is.

[@JuanLopez-zp8qk]

TREES GOT THEIR OWN INTELLIGENCE!!!!!!!! I LOVE ALL KINDS OF PLANTS, ANIMALS AND TREES❤❤❤.

[@surendersingal2192]

Great awesome science of trees? Thank you for enlightening explanation.

[@aquavoce]

This is just beautiful. I love trees. They are so amazing.