The individual shoots were younger, but these new growths from the past few centuries
were not considered to be stand-alone trees but part of a larger whole..
The root is certainly a more decisive factor than what is growing above ground.
After all, it is the root that looks after the survival of an organism.
It is the root that has withstood severe changes in climatic conditions.
And it is the root that has regrown trunks time and time again.
It is in the roots that centuries of experience are stored,
and it is this experience that has allowed the tree's survival
to the present day.
~ Peter Wohllenben
from The Hidden Life of Trees
... down deep, at the molecular heart of life,
we’re essentially identical to trees.
we’re essentially identical to trees.
~ Carl Sagan
