Hidden Nature

brought the infection. Schauberger found that it is the same with trees. Their health is stable within a narrow range. When a tr ...

14. The Life and Nature of Trees Trees in the biosphere Humans have always had a very close interdependence with trees.^1 Homini ...

with a hierarchy among the trees. Each area has its wise trees or grandfather/grandmother trees. The older parent trees succour ...

the by-product of which is oxygen, vital for the sustenance of the animal kingdom and for other life-giving processes. Trees and ...

Trees and colour Fig. 14.2. The electromagnetic spectrum. Another symbiotic relationship between trees and human beings is found ...

absorbs all colours except its particular shade of red. Many meta- bolic processes are triggered by specific frequencies, and if ...

distribution of temperature. The evaporating area of a mature beech tree, for example, with some seven million leaves, totals ab ...

During the course of its life, a hundred-year-old tree: a) Has processed and fixed the amount of carbon-dioxide contained in 18 ...

Light- and shade-demanding trees There are two types of tree with very different requirements of light (see Fig. 14.3). The effe ...

Tree types are determined to a great extent by: latitude and altitude. (1) LIGHT-DEMANDING timbers — THICK, generally rough bark ...

Shade-demanding trees grow additional branches to protect the trunk when exposed to light and heat, whereas light-demanders do n ...

Light-induced growth You can tell the age of a tree by counting the growth rings across the cut trunk. These annual rings also t ...

biocondenser, reconciling the Sun's positive, affirming energy with the negative, receptive energy of the Earth. This important ...

increasingly prone to blood disorders if exposed excessively to such radiation. People living in close proximity to high-tension ...

Fig. 14.5. Photosynthesis. are responsible for the two creators of life, water and photosyn- thesis (see Fig. 15.6).^10 We have ...

The creation of water There is an important relationship between rainwater and trees. Raindrops absorb atmospheric oxygen, nitro ...

into its two components of chlorine (Cl) and sodium (Na), which develop opposite electrical charges when ionized. It is transfor ...

of the tree, the two systems of distribution, the seen and the unseen, meet and are united (see Fig. 15.6, p. 206). In the human ...

point at an altitude of 3-4000 metres. Here it is once more in a 'taking' mode, ready to take up the finer and more spiritual en ...

15. The Metabolism of the Tree All the processes that take place in water are reflected once again in the individual forms of ve ...