Trees
A Thousand Dimensions
Volume 1 2022
How do I support my suggestion that one can see a thousand dimensions,
if one but took the time to think, look, observe, and process what they find?
I write these dimensions in no particular order.
They arise, as and when.
TREES
[1]
… but, at least as far as water is concerned, there is research in the field that reveals more than just behavioural changes: when trees are really thirsty, they begin to scream. If you’re out in the forest, you won't be able to hear them, because this all takes place at ultrasonic levels. Scientists at the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research recorded the sounds, and this is how they explain them:
“Vibrations occur in the trunk when the flow of water from the roots to the leaves is interrupted. This is a purely mechanical event and it probably doesn’t mean anything.”
And yet?
“We know how the sounds are produced, and if we were to look through a microscope to examine how humans produce sounds, what we would see wouldn’t be that different: the passage of air down the windpipe causes our vocal chords to vibrate. When I think about the research results, in particular in conjunction with the cracking roots I mentioned earlier, it seems to me that these vibrations could indeed be much more than just vibrations - they could be cries of thirst. The trees might be screaming out a dire warning to their colleagues that water levels are running low.”
[1] The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben - published by William Collins 2017 and originally published in 2015 in Germany as Das geheime Leben der Bäume. Was Sie fühlen, wie sie kommunizieren. Die Entdeckung einer verborgenen Welt by Ludwig Verlag, a division of Verlagsgruppe Random House GmbH, München, Germany Blue
[2] The text is a direct quotation from Peter Wohlleben’s outstanding The Hidden Life of Trees
14 August 2022
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© Kenneth Thomas Webb 2022
Drafted 23 January 2020
This image is taken over Newcastle Emlyn, United Kingdom by Tomas Yates through Unsplash, and all the work and studies are available for viewing on the Unsplash website.
This image is taken over Newcastle Emlyn, United Kingdom by Tomas Yates through Unsplash, and all the work and studies are available for viewing on the Unsplash website.
Ken Webb is a writer and proofreader. His website, kennwebb.com, showcases his work as a writer, blogger and podcaster, resting on his successive careers as a police officer, progressing to a junior lawyer in succession and trusts as a Fellow of the Institute of Legal Executives, a retired officer with the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, and latterly, for three years, the owner and editor of two lifestyle magazines in Liverpool.
He also just handed over a successful two year chairmanship in Gloucestershire with Cheltenham Regency Probus.
Pandemic aside, he spends his time equally between his city, Liverpool, and the county of his birth, Gloucestershire.
In this fast-paced present age, proof-reading is essential. And this skill also occasionally leads to copy-editing writers’ manuscripts for submission to publishers and also student and post graduate dissertations.
