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General Sherman, Karl Marx, and Other Aliases of Earth's Largest Tree

General Sherman, AKA Karl Marx
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There's a famous sequoia named General Sherman that's the biggest tree on the planet. It has its own distinctive history linked to the Civil War general and a radical anarchist group. Cultural historian Daegan Miller tells this fascinating story.

Writing the Inner Life of Trees

Tree
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Richard Powers’ “The Overstory” is overturning a lot of conventional thinking. It’s been called “visionary” and “monumental.” And though human characters shape the plot of this 500-page epic, the real heroes are trees.

A Year In The Life Of A Tree

That Tree in April 2017
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Mark Hirsch took 365 photos — one a day for a year — of a single Bur oak tree. The project changed his life.

Listening to the Mother Trees

The forest organism
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Suzanne Simard is a forest ecologist who's revolutionizing our understanding of trees. She has discovered that trees use underground networks to communicate and cooperate with each other. It turns out that whole forests can exist as a superorganism.

A tree in Sequoia National Forest

The Secret Language of Trees

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April 28, 2018
December 15, 2018

Trees talk to each other, and even form alliances with other trees or other species. Some are incredibly old — the root mass of aspens might live 100,000 years. In this hour, we explore the science and history of trees.More

Bathing in the Beauty of the Trees

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It's one thing to imagine the intelligence of a forest, but could you experience it? The Japanese concept of "forest bathing" might help. Forest guide Amos Clifford is a former Zen teacher who's one of the world's experts on forest bathing.

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