Jim and Jayne,
Thanks for the tree book references. I’ve recently devoured: Richard Higgins, Thoreau and the Language of Trees.
I’m some kind of nut about trees and their resemblance to inverted humans (parallels in our natural references to crowns, trunks, limbs, etc.). Our hair is our roots sustained by oxygenated sky? My first book, Ghost Trees, includes “The Tree’s Tale” that “proves” it.
A Heartfelt Ditty
Researchers discover trees have a "heartbeat."
It’s just so slow we’ve never noticed it before.
The beating hearts of trees
pulse slowly from their roots
to pump the juice of life
through branches, leaves and fruits.
As the hearts of trees
beat silently in sleep,
trees dream of sun and rain,
and seasons that they keep.
Their beating hearts make trees
vital from their birth,
breathing through the seasons
for all that breathe on earth.
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Ralph
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