Stopping to consider a tree that rose up straight then curved like a question mark, Mr. Wohlleben said, however, that it was the untrained perspective of visitors he took on forest tours years ago to which he owed much insight.
“For a forester, this tree is ugly, because it is crooked, which means you can’t get very much money for the wood,” he said. “It really surprised me, walking through the forest, when people called a tree like this one beautiful. They said, ‘My life hasn’t always run in a straight line, either.’ And I began to see things with new eyes.”
“These trees are friends,” he said, craning his neck to look at the leafless crowns, black against a gray sky. “You see how the thick branches point away from each other? That’s so they don’t block their buddy’s light.”
[ it might actually be that the trees release a chemical that inhibits growth in their direction, and kill other plants trying to grow underneath the canopy ]
Back in the Cold War I was doing work for the US Army in Germany, where we had 240,000 soldiers stationed (which seems incredible now). Anyway, they had to train on German land, and our guys would tell me, "You know, the Germans are really weird about trees. Everywhere we go in the training area, a German forestmeister follows behind, telling the American rep 'You owe us DM 400 for that bush, DM 800 for this tree.'"
Seemed perfectly reasonable to me, but I'm weird too.
Denken Sie wie ein Berg, Herr Wohlleben.
He brought in horses, eliminated insecticides and began experimenting with letting the woods grow wilder.
Of course, there were unintended consequences.
<img src="http://stream1.gifsoup.com/view7/4655887/wizard-of-oz-apple-trees-o.gif"/>
<img src="http://i1070.photobucket.com/albums/u492/c-p1/aww-so-cute-1.gif">
[ it might actually be that the trees release a chemical that inhibits growth in their direction, and kill other plants trying to grow underneath the canopy ]
Back in the Cold War I was doing work for the US Army in Germany, where we had 240,000 soldiers stationed (which seems incredible now). Anyway, they had to train on German land, and our guys would tell me, "You know, the Germans are really weird about trees. Everywhere we go in the training area, a German forestmeister follows behind, telling the American rep 'You owe us DM 400 for that bush, DM 800 for this tree.'"
Seemed perfectly reasonable to me, but I'm weird too.
Make a guitar out of a tree like that you wouldn't need a pedal box.
At the Wonket, you quickly reach the core of an issue.
It's the apeel to common sense.