#hidden life of trees

[warandpeas]

Recycled

Become a patron of the arts here.

[boydswan]

Happy birthday, Terrence Malick! [Nov. 30, 1943] 🌿 · Badlands (1973) · Days of Heaven (1978) · The Thin Red Line (1998) · The New World (2005) · The Tree of Life (2011) · To the Wonder (2012) · Knight of Cups (2015) · Song to Song (2017) · Voyage of Time (2016) · A Hidden Life (2019)

[badtimeswithart]

merboy and bird(bad)boy <3 

[idlespright]

This spring I saw an illustration by Shirley Barber for "The Fairies' Cook". It made me think of all the colors outside when seasons are changing. And so I painted a picture, in my mind at first, of how live would be for a humanized rabbit, living in an apple tree cottage, going out for a picnic with friends.

It's still mostly a story in my head (but now it can become one in yours, too).

[cwseriesshowdown]

Round 1C is done!

Time for Round 1D!

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The following are OUT

Ltr;ttb: Naomi, All American, Privileged, Walker, The Messengers, In The Dark, The Winchesters, The Flash

Here’s the list of the next battles:

Round 1D will run for 1 week. Then it’s time to move onto Round 2!

Two Sentence Horror Stories vs Reign

7th Heaven vs Containment

The Republic of Sarah vs Walker: Independence

Legacies vs Hidden Palms

Life Unexpected vs Reba

One Tree Hill vs Star-Crossed

Emily Owens, M.D. vs Crazy Ex-Girlfriend

No Tomorrow vs All of Us

Put whatever propaganda you want for each show in the replies or tags!

[c-kiddo]

robin friend + new (secondhand) books 🌀

[articskele]

Guys the yearning….. gguys……..

[terrencemalice]

[insxmniafxx]

I’ll hide in the trees, the woods call to me…

@insxmniafxx

[chekovsphaser]

Intellectually I am aware that parrots are capable of imitating human speech. Instinctively, however, my reaction to a disembodied voice from a tree loudly answering a question in human speech is abject terror.

[thorsenmark]

Rock Formations on a Snowy Day (Joshua Tree National Park) by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: A setting looking to the north-northeast while taking in views of a snowy landscape along the Hidden Valley Nature Trail in Joshua Tree National Park. Another image captured where I liked the layering present with the foreground and it's snowy landscape leading up to the rock formations in the distance. I decided to minimize the overcast and overcast skies as I felt it really didn't add much to the image.

[shadowglens]

there was a tree snake right outside our back door today, just exploring through all the pot plants (and hunting skinks i’m assuming), and i missed seeing it 😭

[boydswan]

Happy birthday, Terrence Malick (Nov. 30, 1943 - )

[djohnhopper]

READING: What a fascinating book, the connective life of trees. It is revealing, yet so obvious, to see how a supportive community seems to be the standard across nature, rather than the lone delusional/dysfunctional human male fantasy of survival of the fittest/tooth and claw. Supportive/connective/inclusive communities are definitely the way forward as a means of long-term survival.

[elenajohansenreads]

Books I Read in 2023

#29 - The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate, by Peter Wohlleben, translated by Jane Billinghurst

Rating: 2/5 stars

I love trees and I love science, but I was really disappointed by this book. Somehow the pace was both incredibly slow, and too fast--the chapters were short and choppy, seeming to end in the middle of an idea without exploring it fully, yet the style of the writing was so precious and meandering that it also took forever to get to the point. The preciousness of the style was my real sticking point. I get that for a layman's book about a scientific topic, there has to be some generalization, even if I shuddered a little at lines describing how trees' branches grow in a certain way, as if the thousands upon thousands of different tree species all had the same branch growth pattern, which they most certainly do not. But referring to groups of species as "Beeches + Co." or "Spruces + Co." constantly was grating. (To be fair, I don't know if this is a stylistic quirk of the author, or of the translator, because I read this in English and I don't speak German, so I don't know if these bits are direct translations or idiomatic ones. Maybe it would be less annoying in German.) This is the easiest single example for me to point to, but there were plenty of other moments that made me cringe internally, and the overall tone of the text felt like a warm and kindly grandfather talking down to a child he thought might be a bit dumb. I gave this a second star despite disliking the tone because this is a nonfiction book and I did learn some things I didn't know about trees. But nothing I would want to speak authoritatively about in any but the most casual contexts, because with the generalization and dumbing-down, I would want to study any of these new things more deeply through other sources before I could claim I knew what I was talking about.

[bookbaran]

Reading The Hidden Life of Trees near a forest is really interesting because I can observe the trees based on information in the book.