Comment on The Sensory Biology of Plants

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• srestegosaurio@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  When I was a little kid my mother always stopped by ancient trees to admire them. “Imagine if it could tell us what it has seen”.

  I think there’s plot material in your comment.

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  • ouRKaoS@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I remember reading an old sci-fi novel about a specific type of alien ancient sentient tree… The Leaves of October.

    It was… Okay. More of a collection of short stories around the central theme. Still interesting, though. Haven’t thought about that book in decades!

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  • wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This is the plot of an episode of the anime “mushishi” called “tree of eternity”, IIRC.

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  • SlippiHUD@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    “A Monster Calls” has a very similar premise. Mother, Child, and physic Tree.

    I strongly recommend it.

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• ameancow@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  You’re basically describing elephants.

  They have a deep, rich language of sub-acoustic rumbling and vibrations that can travel long distances. They have names for each other, and they have words for things like “human” and “bad human.”

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• isolatedscotch@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  You could go up to a tree that’s super old and ask it about the world, and it would take an entire day to spell a word in a language you don’t understand.

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