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Trees have feelings

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daughter & I were discussing trees & wondered if they have feelings

found this:


https://familylifegoals.com/new-stu...eelings-and-can-communicate-with-other-trees/

God clearly communicated peace and rest and stillness to me through a tree years ago. It was winter and I was really depressed and anxious. I just stood there under it, looking up and studying it and somehow He spoke to my inner man through it. "Be still and know that I am God" was the sense.

I never told anyone until my SIL relayed to me that, on a bike ride one day, God seemed to be waving to her through a tree blowing in the wind and she instinctively waved back! Lol, we got a kick out of it but God really does speak through creation in joyous, mysterious ways.

(I’m not claiming this is some gift of the Spirit, just little moments as we go along in our Father's world).
 
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I see credibility in this article.
Living on a 10 acre property I was motivated by reducing my carbon footprint by planting trees and growing trees from seeds.
When I started a few years ago I planted Callistemons in a group of four closely spaced and a fifth Callistomen nearly 200 metres away.
The grouped Callistemons flourished while the isolated Callistomen grew poorly.

The scientist in me tried this on other plants such as various genus of Acacias and found the same result; in groups they flourished, isolated they didn't.

Maybe Australian plants are social creatures and no plant is an island.:)
 
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Lol, new age drivel. Trees don't have self awareness. They do what God programmed them to do. That doesn't equal intelligence.
They are not machines. Our understanding of consciousness can be pretty narrow.
 
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They are not machines. Our understanding of consciousness can be pretty narrow.

Everyone can enjoy nature, but believers in Jesus Christ know that everything was made "through him". We look at nature with enlightened eyes, we can say "My God made this!" We can take it all in and rejoice in Him as we contemplate it.
 
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daughter & I were discussing trees & wondered if they have feelings

found this: https://familylifegoals.com/new-stu...eelings-and-can-communicate-with-other-trees/
It really depends what you mean by 'feelings'; there's no indication that they have the kind of feelings that we do (i.e. metacognitive experiential awareness) - they don't have the real-time processing capability. But they have been shown to have complex responses to a wide range of environmental influences, to communicate with and supply nutrients to others through root and mycelial networks (the 'wood-wide web'), and to preferentially assist genetic kin.

Mature woodland has mature trees ('mother trees') that are communications and resource-supply hubs for the trees around them (apparently James Cameron based the mother tree in 'Avatar' on this work). Where mother trees are present, saplings grow faster and stronger and the woodland is far more resilient than otherwise.

So there is a variety of metaphorical comparisons with social animals. The 'New Scientist' magazine recently published a feature interview with forest ecologist Suzanne Simard on this: The Hidden Language of Trees.
 
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Lol, new age drivel. Trees don't have self awareness. They do what God programmed them to do. That doesn't equal intelligence.

Believers can approach nature with a mind enlightened by the Spirit. If Jesus "sustains all things by his powerful word" then we can glory in Him and his work without it being "new age".
 
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Believers can approach nature with a mind enlightened by the Spirit. If Jesus "sustains all things by his powerful word" then we can glory in Him and his work without it being "new age".
I suspect though that the trees are being given too much credit here.

For example, you said:

I just stood there under it, looking up and studying it and somehow He spoke to my inner man through it. "Be still and know that I am God" was the sense.
The first thing I thought of when I read that was, "The Bible says that."

Psalm 46:10 Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.

Not to question your faith or anything, but I think you're putting too much stock in nature over the Word.

On the other hand, I do realize that seeing things in nature can "awe" us to the point of giving God reverence.

Psalm 19:1 The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork.
2 Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge.


I just pray you don't get sidetracked into getting your primary knowledge of God from nature. :)
 
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Not to question your faith or anything, but I think you're putting too much stock in nature over the Word...

I'm sorry but I deny that. The Word is primary, that's why I quoted it from memory to give a backup to the "experience" (which I do not want to make too much of anyway).

On the other hand, I do realize that seeing things in nature can "awe" us to the point of giving God reverence.

That was my original point and I thought I made that clear.
 
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I suspect though that the trees are being given too much credit here.

PS...I never said I believed trees could talk to one another. I do believe God can "talk" through trees or anything else He chooses. That's a good starting point because it is the created order that witnesses against man's unbelief (Romans 1). Believers go on from there and get the full revelation from Scripture and are thus able to rightly rejoice with Wisdom "in His inhabited world" (Proverbs). No "new agey" in that.

"The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork.
2Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge.
3There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard.
4Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun,
5Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and rejoiceth as a strong man to run a race.
6His going forth is from the end of the heaven, and his circuit unto the ends of it: and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof."

Psalm 19
 
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Believers can approach nature with a mind enlightened by the Spirit. If Jesus "sustains all things by his powerful word" then we can glory in Him and his work without it being "new age".
Oh I agree. I love nature, but it's there to point us to God. I don't talk to trees. I do talk to God in the woods however. I admit to talking to dogs and sheep and all kinds of creatures, but I don't imagine that they have souls like humans.
 
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