¶ Trees (1)
Index Entry
Trees:
“Now let me discuss ways in which we might think about nature’s logistical strategy in an accomplishment of most economical world-around structuring as disclosed to us within the narrow limits of immediately visible nature. Let us use the tree as an example. Trees are substantial organic structures, and they frequently last for many years more than do men or birds or fish or the contrived dwellings or nests of men or other mobile life. Some trees stand for more than a thousand years against great storms and earthquakes. While man and birds and fish are positionally mobile, trees are not. Trees are only locally flexible. And yet trees spread their population around the world. The way they do this is by means of their seeds which they place in beautiful little flying machines. The maple tree’s seeds, for example, float around in the winds and come fluttering down like little helicopters. The winds carry these seeds so that by successive generations trees are able to go airborne into new locations around the world. Thus are accomplished the world’s pine tree belt, and other world-girdling tree belts.”
¶ Citations
- R.EPES, pp. 84-85. 1965
