"I understand you Blackjack Oaks are...gifted..."
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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I read the book and really liked it.
That’s ENT-irely silly! :-)
The only way to survive to to kill another living thing. If I see a Palmetto bug (really large cockroach) in the woods, I leave alone. Find a cockroach in my home, out comes the poison outlawed in 14 states.
Have another magic mushroom professor. :-)
“Is that a trunk in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?”
"I understand you Blackjack Oaks are...gifted..."
If you were a tree...what kind of tree would you be?
The next day they leave.
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