
Mother trees and socialist forests: is the ‘wood-wide web’ a fantasy?
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The Intelligent and Interconnected World of Trees
This chapter explores the recent perception shift of trees as intelligent beings communicating through fungal networks, inspired by influential books and the research of Susan Simard. It delves into the idea of trees as socialist communities with consciousness, highlighting the concept of 'wood wide web' for resource-sharing. The narrative discusses the resistance faced by the notion of trees as super-cooperators, the concept of mother trees nurturing offspring, and the symbolic connections between nature and political ideologies.
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