Largest Living Organism!

[RopeShield]

I always thought of trees as the largest living organism on the planet but what i truely believe is that trees are an organ or mb symbiot for the largest living organism, the Planet Earth.

Here's why I have come to this conclusion.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaia_hypothesis

Shigo had many anwers but what was truly the most important is the questions he asked.
Science is full of mathematics and finite terms but there is so much more unexplained.

Please if you have a chance give this a read and share your thoughts.
We are the keeper of these complex organisms/organs.
We are on a revolutionary journey together.

 

[wulkowicz]

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaia_hypothesis

Shigo had many anwers but what was truly the most important is the questions he asked. Science is full of mathematics and finite terms but there is so much more unexplained.

Please if you have a chance give this a read and share your thoughts.

We are the keeper of these complex organisms/organs. We are on a revolutionary journey together.

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We are an unarguable part of the fabric, but we have been the most ugly and pernicious of keepers. Muir said, "When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.”


I heard a rumor somewhere that nature was starting to evolve whales with opposable thumbs. Can she get them ready before the deadlines?


Bob Wulkowicz


http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/5297.John_Muir

 

[Frax]

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[We are an unarguable part of the fabric, but we have been the most ugly and pernicious of keepers.

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Most true.

Man is a species out of control everywhere on the planet.

We are connected to every aspect of our environment. Unfortunately we are most connected with a vicelike hold to the machinations and functioning of our western, mostly urban way of living. We have little practical choice but to use fossil fuels, consume like mad and use resources at an ultimately unsupportable rate.

In the meantime us tree people will do what we can to care for the trees that are willing and able to make it with us.

 

[treevet]

Interesting theory of a life form or "system" (earth) which does appear to hold water (pun intended)despite the lack of existence through reproduction or being able to reproduce as a definition of an organism.

The earth could be considered possessing a symplast and apoplast and operating under Shigo's "dynamic equillibrium" as well (with associates). It also is in need of living in a state of high order for existence and staying away from disorder that would push it from stress to strain (a point of irreturnable disorder resulting ultimately in death).

Wulky's often offered analogy of arborists as pathogens in regards to trees could also be presented as far as earth, the organism, is considered in these times of lack of conscience and self centeredness by humans.

"Early precambium times of photosynthetic bacteria"...interesting again. Enjoyable read.