Sublime

the fungi are pursuing their own agendas and appear to be very much in favor of conciliation and equitable distribution of information and resources.

John Muir famously wrote, “When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe,”

One afternoon I amused myself by watching a barred owl (Strix nebulosa) sitting on one of the lower dead limbs of a white pine, close to the trunk, in broad daylight, I standing within a rod of him. He could hear me when I moved and cronched the snow with my feet, but could not plainly see me.

If the tree is obviously wider than it is tall, then the young tree is in waiting mode. The

Therefore, healthy neighboring pines must have been helping their dying comrades by supplying their roots with food, as I’ve described in chapter 1, “Friendships.”

Under the giants’ bare branches, Liverleafs & Co. seize the opportunity to produce the carbohydrates they need for the following year.

few species of tree that couldn’t care less about the forest’s comforts and social interactions and prefer to strike out on their own.

I can’t imagine a life without the nourishment of the wild soundscape’s divine music enveloping me.