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Trees:
"spaces between them. An effective analogy would be oranges in a pile in closest packing. Think then of the hydraulic molecules as the oranges with the gas molecules filling in the tiny corners between them. So the shock loads on the tree are taken in the gases and the hydraulics give it its firmness and its strength. I would say that we’re probably going to see an age of high hydraulic-compressive capabilities coming in to balance man’s advantages of already high tensile capabilities.
“I’ll just point out to you that out tree is the greatest structure I know. That’s why if man continues to use wood in a dried state, we shall continue to lose its greatest strength. Incidentally, in order to have more trees regenerated, there cannot be a tree underneath another tree because the new tree wouldn’t get enough Sun to sustain it. So nature has the tree produce seeds and the tree ships a pattern in the seed which goes off by the wind and the waters to get implanted where there will be available the new life’s regenerative needs. Trees are regenerative. Man can actually profitably cut them down and replant them,”
