The Tree Book

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I have a little bit of synesthesia where like numbers and letters have different personalities. It's not quite that explicit, but my view is colored by what the trees do and like the characteristics of it. Like when I was a kid, we had this tree growing up that had abandoned it. Kind of like a cool grandpa that's just like sure. You can nail a table into my flesh and put a diet Pepsi on it. Do you ever feel like different? Vibes from different trees. Yeah. But I don't know. What do you think about the giving tree book? Does it make you cry a lot? Oh, it does. There's so many questions.

Part 1 of a very special duo: Do trees have feelings? How do they talk? How old can they get? Are there any tree stories that will make me cry? Spoiler: YES. This episode aired in May 2018 and is worth a revisit, especially since Part 2 is a brand new 2020 interview with possibly the world's most enthusiastic tree expert, J. Casey Clapp. Learn about his many tree tattoos, new additions to those tattoos, how roots communicate to each other, "crown shyness,” social media shyness and the mental health benefits of tree proximity. Also: banana facts and Casey f*cking hates apples.

Be sure to hear the fresh catch-up interview in Part 2 to learn what Casey’s been up to since this originally aired. He’s been busy.

Follow Casey Clapp at Instagram.com/Clapp4Trees and his new podcast Instagram.com/arbortrarypod

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