The trees do not speak to us, never did.
If they could they would likely scream.
Fortunately, their sounds are simply produced by interactions with wind
Which we strangely call silence.
They are not our trees, never were, they are the trees.
They lived here well before we evolved to humans.
They live longer than us, some in fact are over 4000 years old.
Apparently we cut down the oldest one, but not the 2nd oldest
Could the second oldest become older?
They were once all wild and now mostly farmed.
Planting one monolithic commercial forest never replaces a wild one.
Weyerhaeuser is full of shit.
Conservation is not the same as preservation, they all know this.
These concepts are as distinct as Pinchot and Muir themselves.
Trees should be preserved within their diverse forests, not solely conserved for humans.
Trees are not individuals, they are communities.
There is no tree, there are trees (forests).
They live and interact with the entire biotic communities around them.
Theirs roots extend into their neighbors roots, they become intertwined communities
We need to learn from them.