I find it funny that someone with the last name Wood writes about plants.
Am I crazy? I feel so sad when I pull weeds, No, I do not replant them but wonder if they can feel it when being pulled. I feel as if everything is here for a reason and just because we do not understand what it is does not mean it is useless.
Am I getting too old and overthinking things?
I can not recall the documentary but I saw it on trees in a faraway land, some sort of animal will start eating the leaves and when they do this to one tree the others start producing a bad-tasting stuff in their leaves that the animals do not like to eat. I know this does not give details but I hope you can get what I am saying. The trees knew when one was being devoured and said, OH NO, you will not eat me. (those were my words).
YES, your world view (tree view) makes sense!
We impose order onto "chaos" (weeds) - or we impose disorder - depending on who's looking.
I love love love the studies on how trees communicate and conspire to help each other.
Matt Wood (don't get me started on funny names; Dear Abby listed a lot of unlikely names matching occupations, such as Mr. Coffin, the undertaker).
Considering how many non-native "weeds" have choked out my native pollinator plants, I feel no pain on pulling the weeds, aside from the usual pains of arthritis (and chigger bites, and poison ivy lurking unseen).
Long live the trees! (Just saw a documentary on the old sequoias being decimated for lumber)....