Trees are full of song. Wind clatters and hisses through leaves and needles, insects stridulate, ice rends weakened wood, people chatter on the street below, and mechanical noises reverberate within trunks. Some tree sounds are too high for our ears, but can be heard with the right microphones.
Daniel Tigner is co-founder of Canadian Forest Tree Essences (www.essences.ca), a natural product company and has done extensive research into the healing and spiritual qualities attributed to trees and plants.
That animals respond particularly well to essences made from trees is perhaps a reflection of the millions of years in which the lives of trees and animals have been deeply interwoven.
In this fascinating TED Talk Ecologist Suzanne Simard shares the story of her research learning about how trees talk, often and over vast distances in the Canadian forests! Learn about the intricate social lives of trees!
