I’ll tell you something interesting that you may already know from your reading. The bit of a tree that draws up nutrients, the most vital living part of a tree, is actually just under the surface. So a skin wound, a minor whack with an axe or an arrow or a chainsaw, can do a lot of damage to a tree, to its living operations. It grows around that damage. I know what you’re going to say, replies Lanny. You do, do you? He stands up and stretches to the ceiling, ribs and tum, reaching like a sweet pea for the sun. That humans are just the same.
