They have taken up the craziest ecological niches and have formed friendships, resentments, and alliances with all other possible living things. In their million-year-long history, trees have grown amazing skills that assist them in the lifetime wrestle to secure water, nutrients, and light. Now you can see, there is so much to find out in the woods. Or are you already aware that they possess their own type of electric internet that allows them to notify friends and families, from miles away, about an insect invasion? Or that, when there’s not sufficient nitrogen in the ground, they work together with fungi? Or that, they possess diverse personalities and decide when to drop their leaves? Well, sure! The thing is, trees aren’t as boring as you might assume. A book written about trees?! Those boring, green-and-brown things that don’t do anything except to stand there? That, at best, offer some shade or a suitable place to put a hammock?
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