Lyrics: Richard Powers
Music: David Kirkland Garner
Networked together underground by
countless thousand miles of living threads,
her trees feed and heal each other, keep
their young and sick alive, pool their
resources and metabolites. . . .
Her trees are far more social than anyone
suspects. There are no individuals. There
arenβt even separate species. Everything in
the forest is the forest. Trees fight no more
than do the leaves on a single tree.
Nature isnβt red in tooth and claw. If trees
share their storehouses, then every drop of
red must float on a sea of green.