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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Really love your peaches, want to shake your tree.
I have to admit...I do know some trees...
The twins, Crepe and Myrtle...
Myrtle was a socialite...She loved to wrap herself in a Fir...
Her boyfriend, Wally Nut would actually Pine for her when she was away...
Poor had hardly anything...His only possession was a Pecan he kept under his bed for use at night...
That was poor Crepe...
Oh yeah...I forgot to tell about their cousins, the Twig twins...
Remember, when your Maple tree says “yes” it means anal
That rock looks like he’s ..um.. ready, so to speak.
LOL, I was going to post the hippie video too
We get morning wood.
Trees just get wood 24/7 365.
“Trees have sex”
Trees must have wood 24/7 then....
(I’ll show myself out)
“NAZI TREES HAVING SEX ALERT!”
When I see a Nazi Tree, I feel a need to “bash an Ash”.
So if trees’ CO2 supply is cut off, do they experience auto-erotic asphyxiation?
“He be smoking some heavy duty weed.”
If the story involves leftists and trees, I post that video. It’s easy to find, just google ‘youtube hippies crying trees’ and it’s always the first link.
Yeah. Okie dokie. That wasn’t weird... Not weird at all.
Hippies - Crying Over Dead Trees. I wonder what those hippies do in their homes when they know it’s built with trees?
And here we’re being told Americans are science-deniers.
Boy, this guy is some kind of lonely.....sheesh!
This would seem to mean that all plants do, rendering vegetarians insidiously cruel and inhuman.
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