Trees

[poliphilo]

The trees are close to a busy road, but there's a silence around them. They have an aura and the aura is charged with a mood so utterly non-human that it would be a travesty to try and characterise it.

Even so I find it calming.

What do trees think about? "Think" is the wrong word of course. "Contemplate" would be better. So what do they "contemplate"? I think they contemplate water- how it falls, drips, percolates, slides, rises, drifts about them. Do they notice us? I suspect they do, but only as an aura impinging on their aura- as something ratcheted-up and fast-moving and quickly gone.

Comments

[jenny_evergreen]

You understand trees. *nod*

[halfmoon-mollie.livejournal.com]

I'll bet you have a favorite tree...I do. I truly believe trees do feel, and they do...contemplate I guess is the best word. Do they whisper to each other about the birds that nest in their branches, and about how cold they are without their leaves? And maybe the colour of their leaves as they change?

[jackiejj.livejournal.com]

I started to write about my experience with an ash tree, but re-reading your beautiful description, I decided to be quiet and just listen to those slow words--drifts, slides, rises...

I have heard that trees communicate through the air via chemical exudations: if one tree is being bombarded with insects and is dying, it will send out a distress signal: "Protect yourselves! Insects are here!"