Treeline (Full Film) | The Secret Life of Trees

[Music] so my first question is what is a tree ha what is it tree that's tough one actually what is a tree [Music] human beings have been living at the edge of forests for a very very long time [Music] the edge of the forest is where we belong trees are both familiar and alien they don't go anyplace very fast but they endure [Music] compared to humans they're old creatures that we scarcely understand [Music] you [Music] the world of pines preceded the world in which humans could live it takes a stretch of imagination to ask well what does that world look like we don't usually see them until they're a few years old you could imagine how vulnerable it is in those arid soils getting enough water through those long hot summers but if mom was living there for four thousand years then that was a pretty good place the estimates are less than 1% of survival but if they survive those first few years they're pretty good to go and really there isn't much that kills the Bristlecone [Music] as an historical ecologist I think a lot about times when there were trees but no humans and so sometimes I'll go to places where there was before humans in my mind because I know those places well from studying them where Pines evolved and the bristlecones and the limber pine forests are those places I am interested in trying to understand how these trees in a mountain environment tolerated historic natural climate change because I think that can be useful for understanding what will come in the future through the growth rings of the wood I can reconstruct the past climate and I can know how they responded so to see a 5,000 year old tree and to think of how much it's endured and what is able to persist under in five thousand years there's been an enormous amount of climate change they can't move to get away they have to stay and face what comes that was perfectly adapted to be in one place [Music] [Music] Antonucci sanity sauna starts not then not converting are can you marry Nihon service economy sebagai adoro Tomatis duration day you achieve oh no Santiago no mama Yakko samasta Coretta mo sono toki wa Cuba midday sabaki no say Mary ocher an erroneous and a sorry bottle - Co Co can't eat and asleep [Music] the jamoke Anita's diva Vata sigue con artists Caracalla dos de haut silica clean reduced Waseca bat acini OCA tiene de el niños de guarulhos [Music] c'mon dammit Isis is almost Itachi well Cuba watashi no Kazakh they are Makara Cano kena carrots Amato Tata Sumo sin Decimal System all motorists away Rhonda's OD jam'iyyah Mitaka Sigma Pi Sigma Saturday Quebec de Vaca Sigma kaneki Oh crash - Sumatera inácio disabled Yahoo season Oh inácio haqqani hi [Music] [Music] an evil man Devin octane matosinhos erotic even our son Devin I can yo see you eat a diet a genius a velocity that Akuma's the more discontent congregate you know consciously ricotta's to the modest authority last forever in a nurturing Authority you know ginger Sequoia he understood for grenades you know I studied it teriyaki be inoculate your na moon Society [Music] moto moto Gigante so no new more serious I am in the marina Natalie Kyoto Konami totally German auto palace day dear Teresa got no cattle además de la seine amigo mio Arriba show [Music] Joey McCarthy notice Cara many German Anya directed kickoffs to Sumatra Billy Minaj died in the smog come sooner Maria Yama cinnamony relator bastard oh isn't she not your fault I decorated my shop the market human the O'Hara's in the mid-size Nike Panda [Music] without mom with our mom Makena honey some say medina translation a surgery point online segata venireman Damo Suzuki tonight so funny our sons anodized kanji kinds of solute deal [Music] Jinja Oh Tara's entiendo que de navarra Retiro akeem akio hari Kamisama post a matter in order so you are no tsukai Africa wrap our [Music] Q&A Moines Odegard attack say vamos namaste so no more in on Akane hydro you know Kodomo Stav agree on chemo Selena it's cured or the singer it type us [Music] [Music] [Music] Maryna na kotoba Champa Mediterraneo the men Amina you're not saving more candy [Music] misery no servitor so no Kira Kira is not a de mucho todomatsu Kazuki radio [Music] so kokoro no naka de no saki no image discern a key on Ava's embryo Nina Moreno Tata Tata autumn EMF kumite cara de una con su casa Junko saloon [Music] so you means you what you must no voters Noctis no saki nombre de como una thomas taro Yamamoto Jenna Oct so no me no no no no really Cato Kairos navara no ready to pour over Australia [Music] [Music] [Music] Maureen Onaga domenica call maid service today artyom can terminal domes de toda hi mr. Perino key no naka de yes embarrassin can thomsonite she denied even another the conservation can't a solution containing Ocarina Cara Kota Vadis against remotes Otomo's oh gosh it is your name [Music] Stastny - Yama [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] I was seven and I was with my ski group and I could remember them weaving through the trees and I don't know what happened to me but I just remember at one point being lost in the trees and I just sat there wound for a little while and realizing that I was alone [Music] growing up tree skiing you had to have a call a lot of times lose the person that I'm skiing with and then all of a sudden my friend will be like you as like a signalling beacon you'll get the reverberation from someone else and then we know we're really close together it's kind of a cool way of communicating through the trees without being able to see someone [Music] the forest is a holistic place is a place that's connected [Music] you know since I was a little kid I played for us like this they're like treasure chests full of of biodiversity of genes of species that are really really old know that this is a special little heartbeat in the landscape where these things reside [Music] 600 years is a long time you know that's 12 times as old as I am and so you get that sense of history of many spirits have been here before not just human spirits but many creatures have lived here and they still live here and I get that sense that I'm not here alone ever I feel like I'm I've entered into this Cathedral and the pews are full I walk in and I feel at home because I feel like I'm in this community of all these creatures [Music] pretty much every day of the year in the winter I skied in some way I'm always in the forest I don't think that I would have been a scientist unless I had these connections myself being out here is source of that science these are my people and they're telling we're talking and they're showing me things and I'm sorry okay okay study that yeah it's a constant back and forth conversation between me and these guys oh this is really hot if you go into an old-growth forest and it's quite dark it can be quite shady and you can see little plants growing in the understory or seedlings that are kind of cropping up and there's not a lot of light so the big old trees are competing with those little seedlings for light but they're able to live well why is that if they can't photosynthesize very well how could they live [Music] as soon as you walk in a forest most of us look around and we go when we see that big old tree and so this one caught my eye mother trees are the biggest ones and the oldest ones in the forest we've been able to trace that this tree would be connected so you know all these trees around it you know as far as you can see these big old trees are like the center the hubs and that they're nurturing the young seedlings around them as the seed is germinating the mother tree is communicating with the seed sometimes in a really dense shaded forest those seedlings can sit there for a hundred years and just be feeding off the mother tree waiting for a little gap to open up for a tree to fall over a branch to fall just waiting patiently just waiting my time will come this fungal highway is kind of like a direct way to communicate so you can think of the network is kind of like an intranet or a bunch of telephone lines and the trees will call each other up and say hey did you know that there's an insect over here or hey I got some extra nitrogen do you want some [Music] [Music] they communicate all kinds of things they communicate about poisons they communicate about insects and diseases they communicate about resource availability thing and communicate about their stresses their happiness or whether they're replete or not [Music] so when you're skiing through these horrors you know there's still this communication is going on between these trees in the winter it's very much alive [Music] [Music] when we look at the pattern of the mycorrhizal network when we actually dissect it and look at all the mathematical relationships is the same patter as a neural network and it's evolved for efficiency of communication and that leads you to think well it's kind of like a brain it's a highly conserved structure that's evolved because it works [Music] if you to look for that then that resides at the community level it's not in the individual tree level is actually at the forest level and then I started thinking about the materials that are moving through that network when we look at the actual compounds it turns out that some of them are exactly the same as neurotransmitters that are in our brains [Music] intelligence is a word that we ascribe to humans and animals and we tend to associate with nervous systems and brains plants don't have nervous systems and they don't have brains like we do with neurons and axons so in the traditional sense of if we restrict our thoughts of intelligence to the physical brain and the physical nervous system well then ya know plants don't have that trees don't have that but they do have intelligence in a broader sense in that they are perceptive and they receive information they make decisions they have memories they can learn these are all attributes that we ascribe to intelligence they have all those capabilities all those skills and they've actually been evolving those skills for millions of years hundreds of millions of years far longer than the humans or at the animals which came on much later in evolutionary the street so their ability to carry out these life skills are highly evolved and I would say highly intelligent the origin of that intelligence I think is much more complex and not that different than than we find in human beings [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] as we look at these old force more amara we realized that these are the biggest carbon storehouses in the world really are old-growth forests I think we need to say is that where our values lie is that what the most valuable use of those forests is is it for a product that's been valuable to British Columbians for the last hundred years old maybe that product is not going to be as valuable as keeping carbon in the ground and having clean water and clean air [Music] I think the most important thing is to be educated and aware and then to become involved in what's happening in your local forests being educated and aware about forests means going into those forests spending time in them learning about them being part of the forest not being separate from it then you actually start caring about the forest because you know what it becomes part of who you are it's important to us to know that it's there that there's something wild there that you know the wild creatures can live there and that they carry on the life that we depend on and we we strive for ourselves [Music] [Music] I marvel at being able to have stayed in one place so to see if I've dozen you're all tree and to think of how much it send word and what is able to persist under and really there isn't much that kills the Bristlecone they basically just poop out and eventually topple over [Music] [Music] and no energy vibe Aramis and stahma dovid study more Zeebo costume oh it's car Karina Camus ooh the Saraiva season mahjong can toasty okay Tommy Thomas steel Cairo to go to the sauna [Music] the stats Ninagawa the mother says indicate Amata tell you know immature hello candy the song cycle and you are no one the death of a tree is not the death of a forest just like the death of a person is not the death of their community you know earlier today we saw a tree fall over when that tree fell over it starts sending signals to the neighbors around it what we found out is that those dying trees start sending carbon so they're sending their energy and I think their wisdom to the trees that are still alive around them so that the community can stay whole the death is really life in the forest rates it's really just a transformation of the energy from you know one creature to another okay one last question what do you think we might be able to learn from trees Soleimani say he might Rio de Caza so stay Sun aki-nee I know Johannes Oeste de daite devil no kokoro no naka de Chivo Modi today kippa anoetic savasana Kotov are not suited a degree or knocking azimuth [Music] Keva Anatole Kirito an icon [Music] [Music] you [Laughter]

Channel: Patagonia

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Rating: 4.9306974 out of 5

Keywords: ski, snow, patagonia, ambassador, leah evans, japan, nevada, treeline, tree rings, bristle cone, bristlecones, rings, british coumbia, birch, forests, tree, ted talks, snow sport, spirit, skiers, split board, riders

Id: YCEaYInJbos

Length: 40min 17sec (2417 seconds)

Published: Sun Jan 27 2019

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chromecasting this later

[u/CrowTJenny]

Just watched it on Chromecast. It's a gorgeous, quiet film. Beautiful music. Perfect for the winter solstice.