DO TREES COMMUNICATE?

Don’t trees only talk to each other in the movies? Researchers at the University of British Columbia amongst whom Professor Suzanne Simard, are concluding that trees are interacting with one another in a symbiotic relationship that helps the trees to survive.

Connected by fungi, the underground root systems of plants and trees are transferring carbon and nitrogen back and forth between each other in a network of subtle communication. Similar to the network of neurons and axons in the human brain, the network of fungi, roots, soil and micro-organisms beneath the larger ‘mother trees’ gives the forest its own consciousness.

Source | Waking Times from Karma Tube

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Posted on May 24, 2012 via A-MUSED with 4 notes

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spent way too much time looking odwalla smoothie pictures…..

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Posted on May 24, 2012

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And the blistering heat of the Asbury peer we sat, quiet as monks on the
Ferris wheel.
You’re looking down at the water, down at the sea, I asked her “did that ever occur in fantasy? where you pushed little kids from the tops of the ride?” Then she shook her head “no,” I said “Oh, neither do I.”

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Posted on May 24, 2012 via SOUTHPAW with 5 notes

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My buddy Dan K. died recently, and at his memorial service the pastor was saying how Dan had identified himself spiritually as a “searcher.” This was really beautiful to me. To keep on searching, to remain a student, to stay small, humble, foolish in a sense. I’ve found a lot of peace in letting go of old certainties, attachments, formulas and intellectual doctrines, trying to stay open to whatever comes, and always looking for some point of wisdom or beauty or grace in every encounter. This is something Greg (our bass player) told me about, and it helps me when I can remember it. In terms of readings, the poet Rumi has probably influenced me the most.

Aaron Weiss in response to interviewer Jonathan Bautts: In past records you have mixed elements of Christianity, Judaism, Islam and Bahá’í, to name a few. Where do you currently find yourself spiritually? What readings would you recommend that have influenced your worldview the most? @@absolutepunk (via shikseh)

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Posted on May 24, 2012 via amusingly curious with 11 notes

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