The forest which is but one tree

Pando Tree, The Trembling Giant in Fishlake National Park, Utah

This "forest" is actually a single body organism, the trees being genetically identical, growing out from the roots of their mother tree.

http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/pando-the-trembling-giant

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pando_(tree)

Doesn’t it remind you of one ME forest near the Shire?

These days I marvel all the more about Tolkien’s art. I am starting to think that he must have had some divine revelations or something. Indeed, he himself claimed that he was not inventing it, merely writing about what already existed either in the past or some parallel universe.

Or it’s just the scientists are only now rediscovering what people in the past already knew through mythology, being in a closer link with the nature? Return to our natural-spiritual roots?

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