The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate — Discoveries from a Secret World

by Peter Wohlleben

The electrical impulses that pass through the roots of trees, for example, move at the slow rate of one third of an inch per second.

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.

trees—are perfectly capable of distinguishing their own roots from the roots of other species and even from the roots of related individuals.3

Trees, it turns out, have a completely different way of communicating: they use scent.