Alia’s Comments: This article is re-posted from this site known as The Urban Farm Project, thanks to my friend Blue Star who sent it to me. It expresses some of the same understandings about tree beings as I have from my own encounters and memories of times when I wore the form of trees, particularly my life as a California Redwood. Yes, I remember.
When Tomas and I lived in southern Oregon, we were only about an hour and a half drive from some of the oldest living beings in the world — the California Redwoods. We frequented Jedediah Smith Park and Stout Grove, a 44-acre old-growth redwood preserve, the source of the photos throughout this post.
In addition to helping us breath and clear the air, trees also model community, sharing food, water and consciousness with one another. This is one of their secrets to long lives — they cooperate and share all they have with one another, the other creatures that inhabit them or live around them, the land, and even those that come to cut them down and use them for commercial purposes. The trees also showed me that all things in nature continually appreciate each other. They are in constant communication with their neighbors, expressing gratitude for every small or great thing. They hold that frequency as a gift to Gaia for Her future.