TREES...
In our first MADE BEAUTIFUL BY NATURE story, Professor David Haskell, author and biologist of the pulitzer prize finalist The Forest Unseen (2013) and The Songs of Trees (2017) shares a powerful tale with Veronica Farmer, storycollector. In this first-person interpretation of their conversation by Veronica, read how we can find hope and ways forward to connect with our greatest connectors - TREES!
"Humans are connected as blood kin to other species. Some of those kinship connections go back just a few million years in the case of other primate species, a few hundreds of millions with animals, and a billion or more for more distantly related creatures like trees and other plants. If you follow our family histories back, you get to a point where there was a creature, a species whose descendants became either trees, primates, birds, algae or bacteria. We are all related in a genealogical sense, and we are also related in the present day through the thousands of ecological interactions that sustain us every moment..." READ MORE NOW...
"Humans are connected as blood kin to other species. Some of those kinship connections go back just a few million years in the case of other primate species, a few hundreds of millions with animals, and a billion or more for more distantly related creatures like trees and other plants. If you follow our family histories back, you get to a point where there was a creature, a species whose descendants became either trees, primates, birds, algae or bacteria. We are all related in a genealogical sense, and we are also related in the present day through the thousands of ecological interactions that sustain us every moment..." READ MORE NOW...
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