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a slow-motion conversation between roots, fungi, and light that's been running for millennia.
means Land covered with trees and undergrowth — a forest or grove, especially one less dense than deep wilderness.
from A plain Old English compound: 'wudu' (wood, trees) joined to 'land' (ground, country). Both halves are ancient Germanic stock — 'wudu' is a cousin of Old Norse 'viðr' and Old High German 'witu' — and the pairing is so old and so obvious that it never needed dressing up. English simply set 'wood' beside 'land' and let the trees do the rest.
- underground internet
- Trees swap nutrients through fungal networks dubbed the wood wide web.
- mother trees
- Old trees feed their seedlings sugar through these connections.
- chemical alarms
- Damaged trees release scents warning neighbors of attacking insects.
- oxygen factory
- One mature tree supplies daily oxygen for several people.
- ancient growth
- Some woodlands have stood unbroken since the last Ice Age.
sherwood forest — ancient woodland in nottinghamshire, england, legendary home of robin hood
black forest — large forested mountain range in baden-württemberg, germany, covering 6,000 km²
amazon rainforest — world's largest tropical woodland spanning 5.5 million km² across 9 countries