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...
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