Nicholas WongMr. KaczorowskiMs. JeongRST 2424/6/22AHS Distinguished Lecture ReflectionThe key points of Suzanne Simard’s TED Talk on “How trees talk to each other” werethat trees are able to interact between themselves. Trees share nutrients and water and also utilizethem for communication. While sharing feelings regarding nature and the environment, trees areunited. Some people claim that humans can comprehend and speak the trees’ language withsome strategies.Forest trees have adapted to live in united connections preserved by communication. Adetail that the speaker, Ecologist Suzanne Simard, mentioned is that trees have an advanced andinterconnected social network managed underground. The tallest trees are hub trees in theforests. Via a photosynthesis process, trees get more exposure to sunlight. Underground fungi areessential to trees since they supply sugar for survival and a mass of threads named myceliummake up most of the fungi bodies. Mycelium provides trees with nutrients and absorbs excesssugar. Through mycelium, trees are able to interact between themselves.A question from the TED Talk that I would like to discuss further is if humans can learnto speak the trees’ language. What I think is that this is possible since people can always keepattempting to comprehend the trees’ language. It is quite easy to comprehend that trees are ableto convey information to each other and people are able to comprehend these techniques. Treesspeak a language to each other that humans are able to listen
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