Forest Community at Blue Hour.

If you walk the forest often seeking its solace, as I do, you start to experience individual trees as if they are sentient beings—each with its personality, beauty and tragedy, just like human beings. Scientists have begun to document their sentient nature, as Peter Wohlleben does in “The Hidden Life of Trees”:

…most individual trees of the same species growing in the same stand are connected to each other through their root systems. It appears that nutrient exchange and helping neighbors in times of need is the rule, and this leads to the conclusion that forests are superorganisms with interconnections much like ant colonies.

… and …

When you know that trees experience pain and have memories and that tree parents live together with their children, then you can no longer just chop them down and disrupt their lives with large machines.