Tree Secrets we need to share

Since ancient times the tree has been a symbol of strength, wisdom, and of life itselfand the guardian of secrets.

Woods and forests abound in secret trees and provide a special place to find peace, silence, and beauty, qualities that help combat the stresses of modern life.

Essential to life on earth since the beginning of time, trees and their secrets hold a special place in our collective consciousness,rooted in the earth, reaching skyward, nourished by the elements, and enlivened by the sap running through their veins, providing a living metaphor for what it means to be human.

Unlike animals, which eat, breath, sense and even think, trees seem to do only one thing, they grow.

Their Tree secret, is that they are more like animals than they appear.

Inbuilt Hormones provide a kind of chemical intelligence.

Shedding leaves takes weeks of preparation.

An Oak tree knows autumn is coming by measuring day-length with meteorological accuracy.

There is an evolutionary intelligence that makes trees to fit almost every circumstance.

A Mangrove can breathe in salty silt with the help of aerial roots.

The Baobab survives in near-waterless places by turning its trunk into a massive rain-water barrel.

Pines can live on virtually bare rock by forming a mutually beneficial partnership with fungi.

What they all share is lignin, the simple chemical that makes wood as tough as concrete, and enables the tree to suspend a ton of leaves high above the ground.

Extracts of the Himalayan Neem tree, often called Nature’s drugstore, have been used medicinally for at least 2,500 years.

This secret tree is prized for its antiviral, antibacterial and antifungal properties.

Rowan is thought by many to be the preferred wood for making wands and amulets and holds many Tree Secrets

It was said that eating one of the Rowan tree's berries, which tasted of sweet honey, would make a person drunk.

Eating two berries would ensure that the person would live to be a hundred years old.

Eating three would make the person thirty years old again, and stay that way for a hundred years.

Anyone for a Rowanberry Cocktail?.

The Tree of Life is a mystical concept, a metaphor for common descent or a motif in various world theologies, mythologies and philosophies.

This concept has lent itself also to be used in science and other areas.

Is the Tree of Life purely mythical or a secret we've yet to discover...the connection with the 'essence of life' DNA? ...maybe we are missing a very powerful message..so what are you waiting for?...Go Hug a Tree!...or better HUG A Whole Forest

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