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Trees are large living
beasts that can't move, yet still fight vigorously to live as any other life
will. Being the largest life ever, requires matching superlative resources
and strategies for those resources efficient use to survive. Let
alone thrive for millions of years in Nature's system of always looking to
take the path of least resistance/ needed support for the return gained,
that would seem to dis-favor huge life forms that need so much to mature,
then so much more to maintain their sheer mass! Yet still, the giant
mammoths rise from the ground! They must be doing something right in
responsive accord to our world!
~Land of the Giants~
As trees are the giants of our
Earth, they must feed like no other to maintain themselves let alone grow
etc. Before the tough wooden stalks to lift the green leaves high was
invented for trees, plants got ravaged by all beasts for their rich green
foods. This survival strategy of massive wooden spars to protect the green
leaves by lifting them up, also made sure that the tree was not the one in
the jungle to be light starved! In this way trees staked their feeding
territory for collecting sun as well as territory for protection! As trees
grew together in woods, the massive trunks also bordered the soil garden
territory from losing it's mulch stores as well as having the life space
compressed out of the guarded garden of underground life processing the soil
and dying in it to enrich it. Tons of dinosaurs or other large predators;
rambling through could crush the ground cutting off the air supply in
crunching out the life spaces. for the soil needs to be 50% empty space to
be able to hold/transfer air, water, dissolved nutrients; as well as not
take too much food energy for a tree root etc. to pierce to get the
food/water. Logically the more efficiently a root can grow through the soil
resistance/ per the richness of the soil (as 2 separate compounding
elements) the more is left over for growth, repair, storage etc. Also, the
more that trees have to starve and stress just to live; the more that
decisions are made on just raw survival, and not strength/qualities etc.
As
the largest of the large, these grand giants try to take the largest
territory, as shown on
As the largest life, trees
have learned to use resources of sun, air and garden like no other; we can
learn more by watching and moving as the tree works within it's systems;
than ever teach it with saw!
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