¶ Trees
Index Entry
Trees:
"will be respiratorially sustained.
“Enormous amounts of water are continuously elevated through the one-way, antigravity, capillary valving system: the tree feeds the rain-forming atmosphere by leaking atomized water out through its leaves, while all the same time sucking in fresh water through its roots. The tree’s high tensile, fiber cell sacs are everywhere full of liquid. Liquids are noncompressible, yet distribute their local stress loadings evenly in all directions to all the enclosing high tensile fibrous sacs. The hydraulic compression function fills out firmly the predesigned overall high tensile fiber shaping of the tree. In between the liquid molecules nature inserts tiny gaseous molecules which are highly compressible and absorb the tree’s high shock loadings, such as those from hurricane gusts. The branches can wave wildly, but rarely break off unless dehydratively dying, which means losing their hydraulic, non-compressible, load distribution’s integrity. Sometimes in an ice storm the tree freezes, the liquids cannot distribute their loads, and the branches break off and fall to the ground.”
