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Trees And Their Emotions (Expressions)

The age of a tree cut close to the ground can be found by counting annual rings from the middle of the stump

to the bark. If the stump is fairly high, add several years to allow for tree growth from ground level to the stump height. To find the age or rate of growth of a tree without cutting it, foresters use a thin hollow auger (increment borer). It is drilled into the tree to its pith, and the rings on the extracted cylindrical core show the age.When favorably situated, trees in young, even aged forests (in which all trees are about the same age) grow fast in height, as if striving to avoid being overshadowed and suppressed. They normally make the best

volume growth in middle age. This is not true for all aged forests (trees varying from small seedlings to

mature or overmature). Here trees in the understory often grow slowly for long periods awaiting release

from crowding. When this occurs through accident or cutting, they begin to make good height and diameter

growth.Upon maturity, tree growth gradually slows down.Overmature trees are less resistant to disease and insects and are therefore a poor risk. Rot frequently increases in old trees more rapidly than volume growth.

This breath is a gift we receive every moment from the plants and trees that provide our oxygen. Feel the gratitude with each conscious breath…I admire them, love them and they pose for me as part of our communication.Their purpose in this lecture is to help you sink into your hearts…not to think but to FEEL…YES! If you begin to drift off, you’ll find that they [the photos] capture your attention and will bring you into your heart…a place of feeling and connecting emotionally.They are provided in order to evoke emotions. They are paired with poems and quotes by masters of imagery and well-know naturalists…people who themselves were profoundly inspired by the inherent Love that runs through all of Nature.

When a leaf is plucked from a tree, does it hurt the tree?

The word hurt may mean injure, or it maymeanpain.Theplucking of a leaf does not pain the tree, because a tree does not feel anything that we should call pain. The reason is that a tree doesn’t have a nervous system. But when a living green leaf is plucked from a tree, the living cells where the break is made must feel something, only if it is a very faint feeling. However, we must not think that it is in the least like pain, or that it is possible to be cruel to a tree, as one might be cruel to a cat. When a dead leaf falls from a tree, the tree can not feel. This is because a layer of something like cork has been formed at the base of the leaf, so the leaf is no longer part of the living tree.If hurt means injure or harm, that is really another question. The leaf exists for the life of the tree. It serves to feed the tree, it breathes for the tree, and helps to remove from it the excess water which the roots have sucked up. Of course a tree has many leaves, and so to pluck one cannot hurt the tree much. However, if we were to strip all the leaves off a tree in the sprig, we should soon find that it has harmed the tree. But when winds blows the leaves off a tree in the autumn, the tree is not harmed, for it has already taken what it wanted out of the leaves, and has no use for leaves until the next year.