Every tree is interested to keep its neighbors because together they create a special climate, which is cool, which is humid, and where every tree feels comfortable.ĬURWOOD: By the way, what kind of tree was this stump?īy necessity, the roots must be cut when the tree is planted but this practice, among other factors, shortens the life of urban trees. WOHLLEBEN: Yeah, that sounds incredible because we all learned in school that within evolution each being is struggling against each other so that just the fittest survive, but in the forest we have a social society which fights for each other, so the whole forest will survive. And after 400 years every molecule of sugar should have been gone, and the only explanation was that this old stump was supported by its neighbors.ĬURWOOD: Supported by its neighbors? Why do some trees feed a nearby stump? The tree I think was felled 500 or 400 years ago, and when I stumbled upon it and researched it, I found out that it was still living without any green leaf, and that seemed to be impossible because a tree is a living being which burns sugar in its cells, like we do. WOHLLEBEN: They turned out to be a century-old stump. Peter, you began your book with the chapter called, “Friendships” that describes how you stumbled upon a rather remarkable set of mossy green, might I say, stones? What did those stones turn out to be? We'll talk about trees maybe having brains, having societies, having some sort of a memory.
The old moss-covered stump, which Peter Wohlleben first thought was a stone (Photo: Peter Wohlleben)ĬURWOOD: So, I want to warn our listeners to strap on their seat belts because we're going to go to some heights of thinking about trees that people usually don't go.
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