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worldisahouseonfire · 13 days ago

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The walking trees of Ecuador

The arboreal realm lives at a different time scale to humans, but in the wilderness of the UNESCO listed Sumaco Biosphere Reserve (some 500 species of bird, 51 of large mammals and over 6000 kinds of plant) some primeval trees walk across the landscape at a pace appreciable to humankind. They move across the forest floor as new roots grow into the ground, sometimes up to 3 cm a day. The trees are responding to the high soil erosion caused by torrential equatorial rains, leading to new root growth in search of firmer ground, sometimes 20 metres away. As they settle, the tree tilts towards them and the old roots lift into the air, taking a couple of years to fully relocate to its new better soil and sunlight.

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#the walking trees of ecuador #walking trees #Socratea Exorrhiza #ecuador

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clownboybebop · 6 months ago

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if you’re ever in the position to choose between giving up and accepting defeat, and actually trying to fight the ancient unkillable god that is about to peel apart reality like a string cheese, remember this: scientifically speaking, you might as well give it a shot!

1.there were trees at the beginning of the world! there were trees so long ago that they predate bacteria that causes wood to decay. when a tree fell, it would lie there in stasis and there wasn’t any way of breaking down wood xylem on a molecular level in that way.

2. it seems obvious to say, but wood eating bacteria are literally incapable of comprehending what they’re breaking down. It’s just not information conciously available to a microorganism. they don’t know what they’re deconstructing, where it came from, bacteria have no way to even fathom the existence of a tree as a concept.

3. Regardless of the facts above, the world we live in today is a world where wood inevitably decomposes

it is worth fighting the unkillable god no matter how pointless it seems. it is worth taking the risk even though youre trying to accomplish something impossible. the reality in which you live was also once reality in which trees didn’t rot. You live in a reality that allows for existence before the possibility of destruction. you live in a reality where uncomprehending microbes break down matter that is so far beyond the scope of their comprehension that it feels comical to specify something so obvious. you live in a reality that occasionally allows unshakeable physical truths to be altered with no warning.

It is worth fighting the unkillable god because trees are so old they predate the source of their destruction, and it still did not spare them. It is worth fighting the unkillable god because bacteria rots unthinkingly, because there is room in our cosmos for destruction without comprehension on the part of the destroyer. It is worth fighting the unkillable god because now and then reality retracts the promise of immortality without fanfare, and when that happens there is no mercy for the ancient. the unmaking is not softer for the desecrators ignorance. for all things, existence is endless until the exact point where it ends.

so you might as well try to kill the unkillable god. it doesn’t seem likely, but at the beginning of the world, trees didn’t rot. so you never know! you never know

#bazinga!#I’ve been meaning to add these tags for a minute but it was too funny to keep the original line bazinga tag #if you see this i would appreciate this post not be tagged as wornld building #and if you want to use this concept in your D&D campaign #you don’t need to show this post or anything #but if you would please mention after the plot line ends that the original post was written all at once in a pretty desperate state #i thought about ginkgo trees while walking my dog late that night #and when i found myself hopeless and completely alone at midnight #I opened tumblr and talked to myself #and hit post #and went to bed #then it got 2000 notes and i woke up to the realization that the entire time I had said bacteria #when i fully meant fungus #fuck!!!#u don’t need to say all that just please include the context that this is a very personal post #thank u!#I’m not mad it’s not obvious from the post that i was ranting into the void

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morerogue · 6 months ago

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#walking trees #ents #tolkien #real life #fantasy

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boneychop · 3 months ago

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#Something at the end of a really long hike #nature photography #forest #nature walk #naturecore #aesthetic #nature #nature aesthetic #nature hikes #trees and forests #rivers #photography

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thedman0310 · 1 year ago

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This idiot doesn’t even know about The Vegetable Man

Cryptozoology is my favourite kind of fake science stuff. Wish there was also cryptobotany, like mothman but its just a really big fern in the middle of a field with literally nothing else around it , that spawned in the dead of night, might have killed a few people and never shows up in photos, and no one is sure its even real

#there are plenty of cryptid plants #walking trees #man eating plants #the Vegetable Lamb of Tartary #and silphium #cryptid #cryptozoology #high strangeness #cryptobotany

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snailianz · 1 month ago

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