![]() ![]() I particularly have trouble with the ascription of “sentience” to trees, organisms generally understood to lack either central nervous systems or brains.Īs plant physiologist Lincoln Taiz has noted, from an evolutionary perspective, plants neither possess nor require consciousness. And when nearby oak trees shed their leaves at different times, it’s because one is more “anxious and sensible” than the other.Īt this point, I found myself feeling like I could no longer see the forest for the twee. Urban trees are “street kid” orphans, who grow up too fast and die young. ![]() We are told that the trees “agree” about when to produced seeds, and how fungi “demand payment in exchange for their services” to the trees. ![]() The problem here is the human communication, which gets increasingly fanciful as Wohlleben and the off-screen narrator describe trees as parents, friends, and couples. ![]()
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