Sublime

because the fungal threads grow into its soft root hairs.

There are specialized sap-sucking pests for every tree: firs

I never tire of watching tree crowns move back and forth. I can see both the movement of the whole community and the movements of individual trees.

Think of trees in a forest. How did the ‘leaders’ get so tall? Were they extra courageous or charismatic? The ecological response would observe that the other organisms mutually contributed to that growth.

They stand under the circle of camouflaged Platanus, that most resigned of eastern trees, on the spot where the island was sold, by people who listened to trees, to people who cleared them.

Uma única árvore não forma uma floresta, não produz um microclima equilibrado; fica exposta, desprotegida contra o vento e as intempéries.

chemical signals sent through the fungal networks around their root tips, which operate no matter what the weather.

She mentions a word that she really ought to spell for the listeners at home. A name for cones that open only in heat. For trees that will spread and grow only through fire.