The Secret Language of Trees

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To The Best Of Our Knowledge is a nationally-syndicated, Peabody award-winning public radio show that dives headlong into the deeper end of ideas.

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Using a complex network of chemical signals, trees talk to each
other and form alliances with fellow trees, even other
species. In fact, whole forests exist as a kind of superorganism.
And some trees are incredibly old. Did you know a single
bristlecone pine can live up to 6,000 years? And the root mass of
aspens might live 100,000 years? We explore the science and
history of trees and talk with Richard Powers about his epic
novel "The Overstory."

Original Air Date: April 28, 2018

Guests:

Mark Hirsch — Richard Powers — Suzanne
Simard — Amos Clifford — Daegan Miller

Interviews In This Hour:

A Year In The Life Of A Tree — Listening to the Mother
Trees — Richard Powers on Writing the Inner Life of
Trees — Bathing in the Beauty of the
Trees — General Sherman, Karl Marx, and Other Aliases
of Earth's Largest Tree