The Secret Language of Trees 

There's actually 3 trillion trees... I was just testing you all...

Seems like science is *slowly* realizing what Indigenous people have know for generations.

As a geologist, I can attest to this based on the fossil record but it wasn't trees that gave the planet its oxygen. It was a variant of algae that yielded out breathable oxygen and it still does today. Trees are not actually that efficient at producing oxygen. We should all take the time to not only thank the trees but that green goo growing in the ocean as well - without it you wouldn't be here.

When I was a child many years ago, I grew up in a yard that had five black walnut trees in it(good size yard) There was only a couple of other trees in the yard. A couple of plum trees, no other trees grew there. I found this strange because right across the street from us was a yard ringed by oak trees and the only other tree growing near them was an apple tree. I come from a long line of German wood workers. We make our living from wood and from our knowledge of it. That knowledge starts at the tree. I asked my father about this seperation of Oaks and Walnut trees. He told me at the time 50 years ago, that the trees release chemicals into the soil to stop other trees from growing. He also told me, we aren't the only ones who make a living from trees. So do squirrels. Squirrels plant trees and my Dad said they know where to plant them, and that they tend them like a garden. They will cut down saplings from other trees. I love trees. I am a child of the woods. I grew up in the woods. In the summer my Grampa would take me to cruise the trees to see which ones if any would be harvested in the fall. Dad took me squirrel hunting in the fall,winter ,spring, summer, he was there and hungry. Ma and my Aunt's would take tap maples, and in the winter, a boy could get lost in the forest and find his way out following the track. Trees have secrets but if you sit and listen to them they will tell them to you. Like the time the walnut tree complain to me about being the last tree in the spring to get it's leaves. So I asked him about how he felt about being the first tree in the fall to loose their leaves. Said he didn't like that either.

One day i was walking in the park and I saw a tree trunk all covered with termite. It was a young tree and I was afraid it may die. I spent a long time removing the termite. Made sure it be termite free. Next day I was passing by it and tree shivered from tip to toe. It was rhythmic and musical. I looked at other trees next to it and not a leaf was moving. Since then I love them even more. They communicate

Not sure if trees can talk, but they do bark

As a Forestry major, I appreciate this. Look up shinrin yoku, freely translated as "forest bathing". We may not be directly connected to the trees, but being surrounded by them, being among them has a positive affect on our mental and physical health.

I am dubious about the claim that communication between trees was only "discovered" in the 1980's... as a child my Grandfather spoke about this and described the process of chemical signals and the underground network of communication through mycelium of fungii. This was over 60 years ago!

They do have a secret language. I have always known this. So have indigenous people. I am a huge support for trees

You are doing a fabulous job bringing this amount of knowledge to us for free. I am a Zoology MS student & i recommend these videos from you to my young nephew who equally enjoys them. ThankYou for your continous efforts!

Watched a video about tree root systems in the forests of north America and Canada. They were communicating with one another despite being many miles apart it was mindblowing. Environmentalists are often called tree huggers. Hug a large tree and you can feel the vibrations and humming coming from within the tree. Trees are so awesome and precious 🙏🙏🙏

I am in awe of trees and have been since I was a kid ! Climbing them as far up as I could to see above the canopy and horizon. To make tools by whittling shapes with a pocket knife. To plant them in my yard for their beauty . To marvel at their artistic root shapes and find drift wood to add in my home as artwork ! To tear when a large tree comes down ! I love trees ! ❤

I talk to trees and exchange energy with them. Makes me happy. Trees are my friends.

It is kind of reassuring to know that trees are able to withstand extinction events so well. It means that after humans are gone, the trees will pick up the pieces and regenerate their forests.

Alone the shipment of "hello fresh" has a larger environmental footprint than throwing some cream away... Just go to your local market, buy organic food and avoid any unnecessary container.

I remember when I was in my 20s I always liked to ingest shrooms and go for long walks in the forest. I always saw the life and even personality of different plant lives. This included many trees, and I understood that no two trees are the same. That gave me a whole new perspective on all living organisms.

Not only do I hug trees but I thank them for all that they've done for us and I know they have the intelligence to understand that because even in the 1970s there was a book written called The Secret Life of Plants, which you all here would enjoy. I use them when I really need to ground my energy and be more in my body, when I have a lot of stress I want to unload or an emotional burden. Just lay against that tree trunk and let it all go and ask her to send it back into the fiery core of the earth. It's like free therapy!

I feel happy whenever I go to forest. Triggers the millions of years suppressed instinct, thinking I AM HOME. These forests are our actual homes.

If we adopt a pet, let's adopt a tree. If we give love and hugs. Let's give love and hugs to the trees. A very sincere suggestion. We depend and need nature. Well, nature needs us too. Let's demonstrate our love and respect for nature ❤

This is the real Aiwa sahelu of trees... They can't talk but they can listen and response us when we make the pure Bond. It's not just a theory It's more beyond that...

My grandfather was a forester. Once he showed me an area where they did reforest (around 1975). He explained to me that it is important to keep some of the big trees to give shadow to the newly planted trees, so they could grow better. I was confused because the big trees were too little to give an efficient shadow. Now I think the reason is not the shadow. They were on the right track but had the wrong explanation.

Stuff like this makes me think maybe it’s not such a wild idea that hallucinogenics are really the plants and fungi communicating with us. I did ayahuasca last year, and at one point I felt like I was breathing in every tree that ever lived. I couldn’t describe it any other way. I also realized upon coming home and going on a hike that looking up through the leaves of trees was very reminiscent of the geometrical patterns you see while under the influence of ayahuasca.

i love watching these mushrooms bloom 4:39 when the mesh is being formed, the patterns are always so uniquely beautiful.👍

Us humans must learn from the way trees communicate. In fact we do this already as empaths, simply by loving, and being kind to one another. We become our own network, helping one another and sharing resources or even food for thought! Isn't that nicer than competing for personal gain? We want to thrive like forests!! Not just to survive.

Very touching. I hope humans soon will have more humble ideas about their knowledge.

I had a feeling as a kid the movie "Princess Mononoke" was a true story!

As a Forestry Major, I appreciate this at the same time I am also amaze. Since I didn't know that there is already a vast of communication happening right under our feet that trees are already sharing resources passing on warnings and passing down information over other trees. Since entirely I thought that trees only compete which is like a society that only the fittest can survive the chain but I was wrong after seeing this video. Indeed this video truly open to another perspective and point.

My heart is totally shattered to see them cutting those trees… 💔

I would like to see a similar work about grasses and grasslands. As great as trees are, grasses are even more significant in carbon sequestration. The prevailing agricultural model - purely extractive has created many great deserts. But the grasslands can be restored - regenerated. How do we protect and restore that vital resource?

This is the kind of content i was looking for. ENGAGING narration, GREAT FLOW and awesome.presentation. Kudos to the team!!

Your voice, the way you talk about this stuff, its so calm and intelligent. i like it a lot.. i could listen to it for ages

Love that you showed so many ghost pipe! That's a fungi that is kind of swept under the rug doesn't get too much attention. You should google it, it's a special plant/fungi

This is absolutely amazing. It proves the more we learned, the less we know. This channel deserves more subscribers

*Trees:* _"Yup, we can talk!"_ *Bacteria Performing Quorum Sensing:* _"Hold my glycerol!"_

I normally only watch things once, but this is the second time I've seen this, & it still amazes me. I keep skipping back, so I can ponder on what's being said & it warms me inside, how our world is connected. You make the best content...💯👍 Thanks!

They be sharing memes like we can't imagine

Looks like nature invented the Internet first.

As someone who loves the forests this is amazing.

Trees are so special specially the big old ones,when you connect to them with contact feeling the streght, it's a special vibe transfer directly to my tame industrial state of being to pure nature and hard to describe but feel so good to be.

learned more in this one video than though most of my time in school, simply incredible... That trees communicate like this.

There are trees which have been around for thousands of years. They have the secret to survival. One example was one of the oldest trees which shed a large (healthy) branch in the very dry season. Scientists concluded that it was the tree's way of conserving water, to save itself. The life of trees makes for very interesting reading. Know your planet.

The longest relationships I've had with any other living being has been trees. And absolutely they can tell us of their life stories never with either malice or judgement for the unconscious human errors towards them.

All jokes aside, I'm a genuine tree hugger. I feel them, and they feel me. Their energy is palpable for me, they feel like silent, observant beings. I've said since I was young that I feel that I'm a tree in human form. Trees are healers, and they are here and watching, even willing and sacrificing themselves as part of a much greater, Divine purpose, here to help us. Most don't even recognize this. I can walk past a tree and feel it's strength, it's comfort, it's awareness. I hug them when they are offering one, lol. Or when I'm depressed or sad, or when I feel happy and grateful. They truly are silent friends, offering so much to us in many ways. We just have to notice. I Love 🌳🌲🌴💓

As a forestry student, I was impressed and thankful for this amazing videos.It gives me a lot of lesson and learn more knowledge about trees and forest in our planet.

7:00 The Tree Muskateers - All for one and one for all.

So when we see these massive groves of trees dying next to the farmland, could it be because we are killing the fungi with pesticides?

"Wind through branches like fire through water. Whispering, listening, talking with the sun, the moon, the stars and with each other. The language of the trees" this poem was written 35 years ago by my then 8 year old son Michael. He knew things.

Thank you I really deeply enjoyed this. So much info and value here.

I'm a student of botany and i study about VAM arbuscular mycorrhiza and ectomycorrhiza... This needs to be shown to our entire class👍

Excellent information in this video. I was aware of the idea but not the scientific evidence behind it. Land management seems to move rather slowly to new methodologies but, when proven effective, are likely be adopted.

As a forestry student, I was impressed, appreciate and thankful for this video because it can help me to gain more knowledge about trees.

This was the story line in the movie Avatar.. And I thought you were going to be boring but you really are a Fun Gi !

I love knowledge-sharing channels like this. It is too bad that even here there are malicious trolls in the comment section.

Trees already told me all of this but you've done a nice job of editing all this info together

Love trees !!!! So grateful to you for a necessary video. Long May it be shared bc the message is very important for everyone

The book “Overstory” is the most amazing book I’ve ever read about trees.

This was probably the most uniquely informative and educational video that I have seen in at least 10 years. Bravo.🤯

As a forestry student, it's really good to see a video like this. I appreciate the person who made this video share their know ledge about the language of trees

A Forrest is really a Giant organism - and it Creates amazing ecosystems - Full of life. They way this knowledge is presented is gr8 to watch. I think it will teach things to almost everyone who watches it. Thank You!!

"Seeing as that they can't get up and leave..." 🤣🤣🤣

Trees helping out each other...nature is beautiful. (I know they indirectly do this to protect themselves, but let me have my moment)

Thank you so much for these videos! their just perfect. :)

Tons of plastic isn't getting recycled so the most responsible thing to do is find a retailer that can send you bulk items not packaged in plastic. I like Azure Standard. All of the legumes, grains, seeds, and nuts come in paper, which is actually recycled in a lot of cases, but if it's not, at least it will naturally decompose. It also doesn't have a plastic lining on the inside which makes me really happy. You can also use your own cloth bags for fresh produce when you shop. I eat very little processed foods because it's not healthy and it always comes in plastic. If you eat a whole food plant based diet, you mostly will not be using a bunch of plastic if you order your food from a retailer using plant based packaging.

It's so amazing how interconnected the life on our planet is

"However grateful foresters, poets and lumberjacks might be for their presence."

As a horticulturist and landscape architect i have spent a lot of time in the understanding of which plants perform best over a long period of time especially in regenerating parklands where group plantings even in open spaces performed and grew stronger and faster than isolating single trees. The use of layering of species along with the pioneer sp.s like acacias for nitrogen fixation which in turn provides food for the longer living trees.

This is the perfect vid to watch while high, and TREES ARE SOOOOOO UNDERRATED

Swedish clear cuts allways contain at least one big tree still standing. A seed pine I think it's called... I thought it was because it's cheaper to let it seed the area, didn't know about the other bene|its!

About to start my journey as an Arborist. This video makes me excited for my new path in life, but also aware that I have a lot to learn 😆

When I moved into my house 15 years ago, there were only a few trees. The first thing I did was plant trees. (I would find seedlings or small trees in locations they would have been mowed, and transplanted them to my yard. I watered them until they were well established.) Now my yard is lovely, full of life, peace, and beauty.

Thank you!!! This is such invaluable information!

This Channel is a constant mind blow, it's truly amazing to see connections such as this and at least trying to better understand our place within it, no matter how large or small.

Well done as always Stephenie👏 Btw Name of the song is corals under the sun It's so calming😌

Beautiful! I have learned so much ❤️. Thank you.

I’ve grown up in my childhood home with my mother’s trees, one (master oak ,I was told by an old vet) oak tree and I have a talk once in a while and have came to an agreement…I will take care of you, and it seems to reassure me that it will always have my back. So far 1 tornado where I seen it bent completely horizontal and numerous bad storms where damage was all around, that tree never lost a branch or leaf. I talk to it every day, and “she” I call her now is always on my mind and with me 🌳…all my neighbors cut the old growth, she’s all alone now gathering more light than ever and hitting 150 feet and at least 100 years

This is really mind blowing! We are just beginning to understand the role of fungi in the natural world. It seems to me, that fungi are not only a transportation system for vital nutrients, it's also the Internet of the natural world, providing a means of communication between many forms of life. Taking a little step into Woo-woo land, it makes me wonder if the psychedelic properties of some mushrooms exist to help those of us who are not physically connected to other living beings communicate with the rest of the natural world. Based on my extensive experience with psychedelics, I am quite certain that that is true.

Now I know, we didn't even invent the internet, we just rediscovered a faster and unsustainable version of it.

Great video. 2 notes. On a Spiritual level i have connected to trees several times. Also, what a great ad pivot 😊

TREES GOT THEIR OWN INTELLIGENCE!!!!!!!! I LOVE ALL KINDS OF PLANTS, ANIMALS AND TREES❤❤❤.

Awesome video. Would love to see Hello Fresh treat it’s workers more fairly as we begin to care more about our environment. There’s so much we can learn from trees. Thanks for sharing.

Mother trees!!! i was hoping you would have this in the video!

I watched or read about the language of trees a number of years ago. This video is sorta a remake of it. It was a excellent show back then, or book, I can’t remember.

The studio Ghibli film Nuassica touches on all of this is a version of the future that could be semi accurate. It’s fantasy but touches on a lot of vital points! Worth the watch 🎉🎉

The Hello Fresh ad really doesn’t make any sense for creating less waste. I have been cooking on my own for one person and buying groceries in small quantities, not bulk. A container of sour cream? Buy a small tub and find complimentary recipes that uses most of it in several goes. Maybe a cake?

This is just beautiful. I love trees. They are so amazing.

Great awesome science of trees? Thank you for enlightening explanation.

The amount of knowledge I got from this video is phenomenal. That's why you earned my like and subscription. You say, the least we can do is try to be responsible, and then you recommend using hellofresh, which is using up more single-use plastic, sure we are not wasting food but the plastic used for packing @14:53 just for a few ingredients is insane.

Thank you so much for this video, its really fascinating to learn how complex nature really is.

At 36 years old, I’m realizing so much more than any other age. And what a time to be living in for knowledge!

A Hello Fresh ad? I'm bombarded with their ads already. Just mention them, that should suffice.

We have more than one form of communication. All forms of existence communicate with each other. The tree knows who you are and what you are about. And is aware enough to identify you and share this knowledge with other trees.

thoroughly enjoyed this. Thankyou

I love ALL of your videos and amazing knowledge. This one is extra special though.❤❤

Love the science behind this

This is so INSANELY GOOD! The music, the narration, and most of all it is content LOADED. Every other sentence is new information. I have to go back a lot to make sure I get all of it! Then there is the underlying theme which is never even spoken: Take CARE of this Earth!! BraVO Real Science!! 💚💚💚

Amazing resume of these incredible findings.

I have a very important question that could possibly be something more. It's about the phosphorus and nitrogen picked up by the fungi and if this network is as well existent on the edges of our tributaries and estuaries. Best regards, Paulie

I was researching this topic this week. What timing. Thank you

I've done many things in my life, from growing up on a farm to being an environmental engineer and now in retirement I'm Trying to create an Oasis in the Desert. I thought I knew a lot but this was one of the most fascinating things I've run across in years.

It's funny how this was recommended to me when I was just thinking I need to look up how plants communicate. I'm growing strawberries indoors, and I noticed a rogue runner reaching around another plant, almost directly to a small pot where I anchored my 1st runner. The rogue runner even anchored itself by planting roots as if it followed the 1st runner but used a different route, and somehow knew there was a plant obstacle acting as a median. Wouldn't seem as weird if it hadn't bypassed the soil from the plant in the middle as if the 1st runner sent it directions.