"Ohhh, yeahhhh...you like that, baby?"
Posted on 06/02/2017 12:52:41 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Peter Wohlleben’s bestselling book claims that trees can talk to one another and have relationships and social structures. A petition started by German academics is now circulating to denounce these “fairy tales.”
“Trees are very social beings,” says German forester Peter Wohlleben; “the parents, the ‘mother trees’, look after their offspring…they like to stand close together and cuddle.” They also talk to each other, have sex, form friendships and feel physical pain, he told the Canadian documentary series “Intelligent Trees.”
Wohlleben’s bestselling book “The Hidden Life of Trees,” caused a stir at Britain’s Hay Festival of Literature and the Arts this week. He encouraged the crowd to think of nature in human terms, comparing cutting off branches to “cutting your fingers, it hurts” and culling trees to allow new saplings to grow was like killing human parents to give children more room in the house. The festival sold out of his book within minutes of his talk, according to The Guardian newspaper.
But a growing number of German academics are crying foul — and now two science professors from the Universities of Göttingen and Freiburg have gathered thousands of signatures to protest “the conglomeration of half-truths, biased judgments and wishful thinking…not based on scientific evidence,” that Wohlleben is promoting. “Even in the forest, it’s facts we want instead of fairy tales,” says Freiburg’s head of silviculture, Professor Jürgen Bauhus.
“It’s pseudoscience,” Bauhus told DW. “It uses selective and biased observations to support the story he wants to tell. There’s also a lot of conjecture. He has abandoned good scientific practice.” …
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Here come the Lord of the Ring references....
"Ohhh, yeahhhh...you like that, baby?"
The Germans have come a long way since 1941.
Not surprised that Germans feel pain while having sex.
“Ents are stronger than trolls.” I’ve heard it all before . . .
all the best Germans have been long wiped out in conflict. The weirdos who are left- good luck to them
“Ohhhh, Tannenbaum!”
Someone tell the peace loving migrants in Germany that the trees have sex, maybe they will start raping the trees instead of the German natives....
So the forest really is full of wood!
Ask any holocaust survivor.
Hence the term “woody”.
Define “best”. I don’t have much regard for troops that think nothing of wiping out entire villages in reprisal for killing one appointed governor. (The movie “Hitler’s Madman” was on TCM earlier today; about the massacre of Lidice in what is now the Czech Republic.)
So this is what trees do when no one is in the woods to hear them fall?
OK. So we can’t eat animals, and now we can’t eat vegetables. Start chomping on dirt. OOPS! can’t do that! worms and bacteria!
NAZI TREES HAVING SEX ALERT!
Maybe not. They were nut case nature worshippers then, too.
It’s true...you should hear how my crepe myrtles scream when I prune them early in the year...very unsettling.
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