Doesn't it make you wonder what other extinct plants may be found and brought back again, ones which have healing or high nutritional properties?
It is like there was a 2,000 year old plan to save a species. I wonder how different ancient wheat and corn found in Egyptian tombs is from today?
Yes, yes, Oh YES! I loved that story more than anything. It uplifted me in so many ways. I can't stop marveling about the woman who soaked the seed in warm water and then got it to sprout. it's a return from the dead. It's ancients rising back up. Seeds are incredible things! A thrill flowed through my whole body. It heals me. I just finished posting in the Prayers Thread that I needed some healing tonight. Then I saw your post and remembered the video and took it into my being all over again, and I am going to keep thinking about it as I float off to bed.
I am so happy to hear that the trees, even in video and print form, have raised you up and helped begin to heal you. This story tells me that we may not know the reason for life's mysteries but they do in fact reveal themselves in their own time.
Often blessing come in ways we least expect and in forms we have yet to imagine.
As a young girl living among fruit orchards, I always climbed trees. All of us—24 cousins in a family enclave—did. The far-above-the-world feeling, while we chose the smallest trees we were capable of reaching, was quite the natural high.
In recent years during our nature walks on Cape Cod, I would hug a tree if no one was around or looking, except for my husband. Pre-pandemic, we’d joined a group of people in Ptown’s Beech Forest for a forest bathing experience—a Japanese tradition to seek a healing connection w nature and peaceful introspection. Finally, I embraced openly the trees that “spoke” to me. “Hug me!” I heard, “I’ll hug you back.” And, so I did and felt an energetic exchange of strength and love, compassion and resilience.
I remember some people had mocked Barbara Walters’ constant question at an interview’s culmination, “If you could be a tree, what type of tree would you be?” I always thought it was a brilliant question worthy of introspection and connection at the time. It’s sad to me that she noted the harsh criticism and refrained from using it over time. I always knew I was an oak tree and now we live on Oakwood Rd. I hug trees whenever I want to now which is whenever I’m walking in our beautiful forests. ? Long live the trees!
This could easily go under the "Future of Farming" thread, but since it specifically mentions how trees are aiding the cause, I'll put it here. :-)
Ok, finally some possible positive climate news.
Trees. Planting trees might make the planet cooler. Forests tend to bring in clouds which can lower the temperature. I am not exactly sure why this is news but apparently it is.
https://phys.org/news/2021-08-forests-cool-planet-thought.html
@lovendures Thank you for posting. I am always uplifted to hear about the good things that trees do!
I (we) know! haha
I doubt that any of your frequent members here would think otherwise. Good tree news =great Jeanne Day!
It seems so logical that this wold be the case, that forests would attract a cloud cover and thus also cool the land. But apparently it hadn't really been studied...?
Artists and a landscape architect in The Netherlands are completing an inspiring 100 day "summer mobile forest." Wheeling over 1,000 native trees to a new location around a city— before they're finally planted— the project's goal in creating an urban oasis of green is to "focus our attention on the urgent need to change our view of the relationship between humanity and nature."
@deetoo i love this project- when those trees come marching thru the town, it showed everyone what they could have had/ would have had/ should have had, all along, if only they had been more insistant on it. It is time to insist upon trees.
Newly identified waterlily species is world’s largest
Kew’s scientific and botanical research horticulturist Carlos Magdalena said the discovery is the biggest achievement of his 20-year career at Kew.
“However, it took me years to find this tremendous plant. Finally, in March 1988 after sailing over two hours up the Yacuma River looking for tributaries with several huge leaves and some flowers, I collected and preserved them in the National Herbarium of Bolivia, which turned out to be a specimen of Victoria boliviana, now the type specimen. It was a great find and one I will always remember.”
...The waterlily house at Kew Gardens opened in 1852 and was built to house the giant plants discovered by explorers in the Amazon basin.
...The giant waterlily Victoria amazonica drew crowds who marvelled at its huge circular leaves, strong enough to support the weight of a child.
Despite astonishing the western world, the plant was well known to the Indigenous people of the Amazon, who used it for food and medicine.