Sleeping Trees

Sleeping Trees.

"Sleeping Trees" is an essay by Karl Jones.

Sleeping Trees

Context: "what have the plants taught you?"

I once asked trees (here in Minnesota) if they feel pain during winter, from the cold.

"We sleep," replied the trees.

When I say "I once asked", I mean it literally ... summer, years ago, while leaning against a tree and wondering how it responded to winter.

So I asked the tree — this one specific tree — if it felt pain.

[I am a scientist first, but a poet also.]

Fiction cross-reference

• Gnomon algorithm
• Gnomon Chronicles

External links

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