Trees Have a “Heartbeat,” Scientists Discover





‍‌Researchers discover trees have a “heartbeat,” it’s just so slow we’ve never noticed before




Until now, scientists thought water moved through trees by osmosis, in a somewhat continuous manner.

Now they’ve discovered the trunks and branches of trees are actually contracting and expanding to “pump” water up from the roots to the leaves, similar to the way our heart pumps blood through our bodies.

The only difference between our pulse and a tree’s is a tree’s is much slower, “beating” once every two hours or so, and instead of regulating blood pressure, the heartbeat of a tree, regulates water pressure.

“We’ve discovered that most trees have regular periodic changes in shape, synchronized across the whole plant … which imply periodic changes in water pressure,” András Zlinszky of Aarhus University in the Netherlands told New Scientist.

In his 2017 study, Zlinszky and his colleague Anders Barfod used terrestrial laser scanning to monitor 22 tree species to see how the shape of their canopies changed.

The measurements were taken in greenhouses at night to rule out sun and wind as factors in the trees’ movements.

In several of the trees, branches moved up and down by about a centimeter or so every couple of hours.

Here is the changing of movement charted in a magnolia tree.
Here’s the change of movement charted in a magnolia tree. (Photo: András Zlinszky/Twitter)

After studying the nocturnal tree activity, the researchers came up with a theory about what the movement means. They believe the motion is an indication that trees are pumping water up from their roots. It is, in essence, a type of “heartbeat.”

Zlinszky and Barfod explain their theory in their newest study in the journal Plant Signaling and Behavior.

“In classical plant physiology, most transport processes are explained as constant flows with negligible fluctuation in time,” Zlinszky told New Scientist. “No fluctuations with periods shorter than 24 hours are assumed or explained by current models.”

But the researchers still don’t fully understand how the “pumping” motion works. They suggest maybe the trunk gently squeezes the water, pushing it upwards through the xylem, a system of tissue in the trunk whose main job is to transport water and nutrients from roots to shoots and leaves.

In 2016, Zlinszky and his team released another study demonstrating that birch trees “go to sleep” at night.

The researchers believe the dropping of birch branches before dawn is caused by a decrease in the tree’s internal water pressure. With no photosynthesis at night to drive the conversion of sunlight into simple sugars, trees likely conserve energy by relaxing branches that would otherwise be angled towards the sun.

These birch movements are circadian, following the day-night cycle.

Their new discovery is something entirely different, they say, because the movements happen at much shorter intervals.





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160 responses to “Trees Have a “Heartbeat,” Scientists Discover”

  1. Sharon Villeneuve Avatar
    Sharon Villeneuve

    I have heard trees drinking after a drought, not just one tree but a whole city block of trees. The sound and volume was quite surprising.

    1. Katrina Avatar
      Katrina

      WhY does it sound like?

    2. Lou McKenzie Avatar
      Lou McKenzie

      My understanding of divine creation is that God is in the trees. Trees (soul) are on the gross plane, after stone. Stone moves very slowly and plants, attached to the earth, move faster, up the planes to worm…who is able to crawl rather than being attached, like trees and plants. In the elemental kingdom of trees, evolution gives life to God’s creation. Worm turns into honeybee, and it is the first stage of leaving the earth and going airborne. Honeybees (and pollinators) are the first to express pure Love in creation. They do what they do in unison with the hive and the Love permeates survival of the whole. Love is what goes on the the hive in order for all bees to survive. Same with all pollinators…they create life out of pure love.

      1. Hu Avatar
        Hu

        What does that have to do with Sharon saying they heard the sound of trees drinking?????

        1. Ron Avatar

          The right to have an opinion.

      2. Samantha Avatar

        Wow, that was so amazingly said Lou… Where might I find more about those teachings? I hope you see this!

      3. K. A. Feiler Avatar
        K. A. Feiler

        That`s called pantheism…

      4. DanielTheRed Avatar
        DanielTheRed

        Don’t ruin nature by referencing a man made “God”to explain something beautiful as Nature is.

        1. Shelly Paredes Avatar
          Shelly Paredes

          Yes!

        2. Tasha Avatar
          Tasha

          God, nature, it is the same to some people. Yes, the concept of God is ‘man made’ as you say, as all thought and emotion is perceived through our human lens. We are just humans trying to name a force greater than ourselves…we are all connected…

          1. howard palm Avatar
            howard palm

            In fact God is an all powerful universal energy existent in everything. Man turned God into a being to suit himself. Each unto their own. Namaste

        3. charles jandecka Avatar
          charles jandecka

          … forget “nature,” whatever the hell that is. The article is about trees. Please explain how trees behaves, lives etc without input from a Creator.

          1. Susan Avatar

            Trees are a part of nature as are we. The life force ‘‘enlivens’ and flows through all living, organic and inorganic matter. As a result we are all connected through the life force to each other….

          2. j Avatar
            j

            google Acacia trees and communication. There are studies that show the trees communicate with each other.

        4. gajan warren Avatar

          Oh thank you for not adding to the BS! They don’t realize the whole concept of God is man made.No different to Fairy-Tales. And that book,that made made & man written book/bible has caused more strife in this world than any other THING on this blue planet! Wars are still fought over religion.The one thing that separates us all is religion.

      5. Chris McCurry Avatar
        Chris McCurry

        Beekeeper here, I take it you have not studied or worked closely with bees. They raid other waker hives, they sometimes kill queens they feel are not performing well, they produce far more drones than are needed which are then forced out to starve or freeze in the fall air, a new queen kills the old queen, so on and so forth. They are decidedly not focused on love. They are analytical, opportunistic, and efficient.

        1. Barbara Denny Avatar
          Barbara Denny

          They sound like humans.

        2. John Madron Avatar
          John Madron

          People have all sorts of ridiculous fantasies about things they know nothing about.

        3. Judith Preuß Avatar
          Judith Preuß

          I spontaneously applauded you for this actualised answer tearing apart this romantic rigmarole of the lovey-dovey bee…
          Then again, I would find it interesting to give it a second thought. How sure can we be about the absence of “love” in a bee? We might need to alter and adapt our human definitions of love (ranging from grace of charity, altruism to desire etc.) a little in a more biologistic, less Christian way.
          What may love be for a bee?
          Can she feel desire?
          Could killing a useless male or royal possibly be an act of love? Just wondering…
          “Could you bee loooooved, then bee loved”

          1. Kent Paul Dolan Avatar

            It helps in positing emotions for a bee to conceptualize the colony as the individual and the bee as a sub-entity of the hive. Then the evolved behaviors of the hive, such as efficiently replacing queens, can be mapped onto human concepts like self-love.

            For what it is worth.

            /s/ xanthian.

        4. Scott Heydon Avatar
          Scott Heydon

          Thank you for some reality Chris. I for one believe in the wonders of the Universe and do not fell a need to explain everything as the workings of some invisible and unexplainable ‘thing’.

        5. Yvonne Slater Avatar
          Yvonne Slater

          Bit like humans then! Except bees wouldn’t willingly destroy what feeds them so maybe they’re actually a superior species!

        6. John Novak Avatar
          John Novak

          What you see is not reality, but your interpretation of it.

      6. William Avatar
        William

        Your understanding is complete horseshit then

      7. James Avatar
        James

        This is the most ridiculous response…way to throw in JC

      8. Katherine Gipple Avatar
        Katherine Gipple

        That is beautiful! I love what you wrote. I let the Dandelions bloom and everyone around me mowed their yards shirt, three times and sprayed chemicals. They got in my eyes because they were spraying chemicals across the street with 50 and 60 mile an hour winds.

      9. M Avatar
        M

        Hahahahahahahahahahaha

      10. Glenn Robitaille Avatar

        And then everything out there eats everything else and God smiles…wonderful love…wonderful love

      11. Sara Sophia Julian Avatar
        Sara Sophia Julian

        LOU MCKENZIE….I want to connect with you …I love to hear your knowing…I would love to learn from you …

      12. Clif Dennis Avatar
        Clif Dennis

        Genesis 1:31….

      13. Tara Avatar
        Tara

        Someone else who has felt the heartbeat of the trees before science proved it. Thanks for sharing.

      14. Anurag Avatar
        Anurag

        Maybe yoy dont know, but the first creation as I read in ancient scriptures is originated from water. And there are no such thi g as God or divine is there at some place. Every one is unique in their own nature.

      15. Reality Slap Avatar
        Reality Slap

        Gotta love when a religious nut thinks their magic sky man in pajamas has anything to do with actual intelligent thought. If we were interested in your book of fables, we’d read it ourselves.

      16. Brittany Hilliard Avatar
        Brittany Hilliard

        preach elsewhere please, being a religious freak is your choice, don’t make us suffer for it.

      17. Pat Avatar
        Pat

        nice!

    3. ocean Avatar
      ocean

      wow, that is amazing

    4. dejacusse Avatar

      Yes,tell us more about this sound

    5. MedicTim Avatar

      what did it sound like? I’ve heard snow fall w a int soft hush sound; but what does a tree heart sound like??

    6. Colleen Avatar

      Very interesting. How extraordinary! I wish U could hear that. Where did you hear the trees drinking? Thanks

    7. Jacqui Avatar
      Jacqui

      I have heard it, too!

    8. Devi Avatar
      Devi

      Was this in SoCal?
      After the 5 year drought in Sta Barbara, when the rain came, you could hear the ground sigh as the moisture permeated the clay, and feel the plants breathe, the roots expand as they drank up the water. It went on for a full year as gentle rains soaked in. In time the leaves and branches stopped drooping, the full color was restored to the bark, the fiber swelled. The sound was visceral and rather subsonic, but when you walked the back country away from cars it was a burbling stream quietly running upwards.

      1. Maggie Avatar
        Maggie

        Lovely description!

    9. Anne Avatar
      Anne

      Wow! What did that sound like?

    10. nancy Avatar
      nancy

      I have a plant that does that.

    11. Anita timins Avatar
      Anita timins

      Wow. That’s awesome . Is there a video?

  2. Sharon Villeneuve Avatar
    Sharon Villeneuve

    Email address starts with a lower-case “l”.

    1. Sky McCain Avatar

      In an email address, the words before the “at” sign (name) are not case sensitive.

      1. HM Avatar
        HM

        Yes, but that lower-case “l” could be an uppercase “I”…

  3. Michael Avatar

    Wow. Thats amazing ! Trees with soul and own language !

    1. MIHIR Avatar
      MIHIR

      Yes,Buddha was born as a tree before being born as man. Buddha Jatak Tales which narrates all the stories of his almost 500 previous births. In that a tale narrates his experience as a tree.

  4. Nick Homyak Avatar

    so many species of North America trees are dying..interesting research. Our Town just lost another forested sloped landscape of trees for a useless shopping mall in a land of already developed and vacant malls…

    1. vsal Avatar
      vsal

      they paved paradise and put up a parking lot
      -joni mitchell

      1. glenn Avatar
        glenn

        and …. ‘you don’t know what you’ve got ’till it’s gone’!

      2. Sky McCain Avatar

        Also prophetic

      3. Linda Avatar
        Linda

        Across the street,nestled between houses in the middle of the block was a small forest of century old trees…refuge for small animals too. They did the unthinkable…an apartment complex and parking lot.

    2. MJ Avatar
      MJ

      On the property next to ours we just recently witnessed the landowner have several large mature trees removed so he can graze more animals. It was so sad to see. Made no sense. Grazing animals need a little shade too.

    3. Krista Avatar
      Krista

      It really breaks my heart when I see stands of trees being decimated by developers. I agree wiith you wholeheartedly.

  5. Waneen Avatar

    Interesting

  6. Judith van Praag Avatar

    Aarhus University must be the one in Denmark, not the Netherlands.

    1. Jacqui Avatar
      Jacqui

      Yes it is. The article misquoted the country. The research was done by researchers at universities in Denmark and Hungary.

  7. lava Avatar

    so many trees are dying?.. just cut? .. what a shame, if that is a case, plant another forest nearby.. wtf

    1. PGTips Avatar
      PGTips

      There’s a saying, from little acorns do large oak trees grow. A forest takes decades of tree growth, there will be no trees left if they are all cut down & replaced with younger ones. The planet will become a giant tree nursery,young trees in a baking hot climate & little oxygen left for us humans ect. Big trees, more oxygen for us less harmfull gasses. Think of it like saying, every kid that reaches a certain age is too old so has to be killed. Where do the next adults come from? Just saying.

      1. Diane Avatar
        Diane

        Trees are lungs of the Earth, once they are gone, the Earth, and everything on it will cease to exist. Trees make the oxygen we all need to live.

        1. Mike Avatar
          Mike

          Diane, though trees very much help regulate climate and water in local areas, they do contribute to our local air quality, but do not be mistaken that the majority of the oxygen that we breathe on this earth comes from phytoplankton photosynthesis…in our oceans!

    2. Christina Avatar
      Christina

      Towns in Connecticut prefer to remove trees because of the taxable income from golf courses & shopping centers. Homeowners remove trees because they don’t want to take leaves in the Autumn. Trees naturally cool houses not only because of the shade, but also because cooler air… next to hot air… creates a breeze. Once the tree is cut… the homeowner is compelled to buy a better A.C. system. Great.

    3. Tan Harvey Avatar

      You cannot replace ancient trees or ancient woodland, it has taken over 400 years to achieve that level – new trees/woodland planted today will never achieve the same status as we no longer have the soil structure to create it…wtf

    4. Poison Ivy Avatar
      Poison Ivy

      That is exactly what should be done but is it a requirement therefor it’s not done. In Hawaii for every acre someone purchases an additional acre must be purchased and donated back to the Island. Problem is we are growing at alarming rates, we will run out of space and food if we don’t make drastic changes.

  8. Mart Claassen Avatar
    Mart Claassen

    András Zlinszky of Aarhus University in the Netherlands? Shouldn’t that be Denmark?

    1. Mitzi Avatar
      Mitzi

      Indeed.

  9. Christine Avatar
    Christine

    Ok, I know this doesn’t sound good, but 40 yrs ago I took some acid ! I ended up sitting under this tree and all of a sudden it started making noises and all the trees were having some kind of communication. I couldn’t believe it.Never forget the sounds of the water running through the tree and their talking, haha, know it sounds crazy, but true..

    1. Bonnie Avatar
      Bonnie

      I always believed that, if used properly, hallucinogenics allowed us to be one with the universe.

      1. rose Avatar

        i believe it as well.

      2. Clobear Avatar
        Clobear

        Or to realize we already are. To feel things it takes science decades to prove

      3. Aaron Smith Avatar
        Aaron Smith

        Christine and Bonnie – LOVE these comments about ‘those days’. There was SO much more Truth and Spirit in them than people who weren’t there want to admit now days. A WONderful time!
        And no, Christine, it doesn’t sound crazy at ALL! And Bonnie, I and many others agree with you completely — it’s just that that wave of understanding and experimentation came and went and now newer waves of approach have taken over. But I’ll always believe that those of us who were there and alert and healthy and ‘daring’ enough at the time will never forget how great it was. Thanks!

      4. Bridgie Avatar
        Bridgie

        Agreed Bonnie! Meditation can also achieve an altered state of consciousness enabling one to connect deeply with Nature. It’s a beautiful, life changing experience

        1. SueWE Avatar
          SueWE

          So true! I didn’t do the drugs, but meditated and achieved altered states to “become” trees, animals and even stones. It was so very magical to experience life as a tree and to slow WAY down and feel what it felt like to be a stone. Everything is alive! They all have consciousness and think and communicate and have personalities! Wish I could still do that!

          1. Karen Avatar
            Karen

            Wish you could still do that, or wish that you could give yourself the time (and opportunity) to do that? Just askin’ … (Go for it!!)

    2. Martin Avatar
      Martin

      amazing and true, i had a similar experience taking mushrooms on Java (35 years ago), the ocean turned into an orchestra producing amazing music, so loud and powerful with me being the only audience until i found a crab and we became best friends, the crab did not try and get away from me when i put him on the sand, we spend all afternoon together

    3. Penny Avatar
      Penny

      Same

    4. Diane Avatar
      Diane

      Yes, similar experiences. And no judgement here- acid in the correct settings is extremely healing and educational. Read about the actor Cary Grant, for instance. So many testimonials concur…namaste

    5. Bridgie Avatar
      Bridgie

      Had a similar experience but without acid. Heard the trees ‘talking’in muffled voices – was such an awesome experience!

    6. Mushmash Avatar
      Mushmash

      Not crazy! I did the same but saw all the trees and green breathing like they were alive. It’s because they are

    7. Lena Rothman Avatar
      Lena Rothman

      I have heard the same.Nothing wrong with you experimenting on yourself and nothing crazy about it.What’s crazy is peoples cut off from nature so much so that they no longer respect themselves or nature and it’s disappearing.I’ve seen that trees record everything they’ve witnessed in their lifetimes. It’s in the bark.They’ll say I’m crazy, but 50 years from now, they’ll say the same thing and only they could know because after all a machine told them so.

      1. Tami Avatar
        Tami

        there is a study going on that implies that if children are not exposed to nature by age 9 or 10 (can’t remember) they really won’t ever have a connection to it. Scary so many kids inside playing on phones, x-boxes, etc….not outside enjoying. Our natural world will be destroyed if people are not raised in it to learn to protect it, nurture it, and fall in love with it.

    8. Rhonda Avatar
      Rhonda

      Christine, I absolutely believe you.

    9. Nancy Avatar
      Nancy

      Totally believe you and if we all too LSD -and other mind altering medicines we would protect this

    10. Chlytie Avatar
      Chlytie

      Heppened to me too… but with mushrooms.

  10. Katrina Avatar
    Katrina

    What does it sound like?

    1. Chan Maddanna Avatar
      Chan Maddanna

      I have experienced this on regular basis after morning meditation, when i walk and sit under our maple trees. Early morning, when sun starts to fall, is on great time to observe this. they are a bit more animated, the subtle water noises are not linear, its a bit more animated. at some point, the synchronicity and correlation with other trees near by becomes apparent. to be honest they feel so alive, as in like sitting with a large friend … elephants or something…

      it is one of the joys of human life to discover, and i encourage everyone who have not tried it to do so. but one needs to be slow… their processes happen so slowly. even the tree song of rustling water movements … very slow for a human mind. cheers !

  11. Solange Avatar
    Solange

    If you liked this article The hidden life of trees by Peter Wohlleben is a must read. Changed my mind about trees forever.

    1. rose Avatar

      amazing book!

    2. Tim Avatar
      Tim

      The secret life of plants is another good read. I think it was published in the 70s. That book changed my view on many things.

      1. Maria Avatar
        Maria

        Who was the Author? There is a couple books out by that name.

    3. SamJS Avatar
      SamJS

      Thanks, I made note of author and title. Will be checking it out.

    4. Diana Avatar
      Diana

      I am reading this book right now, I love it.

    5. Chris Avatar
      Chris

      Just finished a second read of it! And at the time this was still a mystery. He just makes clear our current understanding is/was flawed.

    6. Woody Avatar
      Woody

      Have you also read “The Overstory” by Richard Powers?

  12. Hazel Avatar
    Hazel

    My mother & Father always used to say put your arms around a tree and it gives you energy.

    1. Jen Avatar
      Jen

      My Grandpa hugged the redwoods when he visited me in California and got poison ivy! 😉

    2. rose Avatar

      smart! I have certain trees in my neighborhood that I greet on my walk. sometimes I shake their branch.

    3. Tim Avatar
      Tim

      I think that’s actually a native American belief. But I believe it too.

      1. Maria Avatar
        Maria

        It’s Irish too!

    4. Betsy Avatar
      Betsy

      There was a time when I was extremely depressed- could barely get out of bed to tend to work. But I had the impulse to walk in the woods, which helped some. And then one day on one of the walks, I had the urge to sit with my back against a large tree. So I did. I curled up at the bottom and put as much of myself against the trunk as I could. I was wrapped inside the tree’s energy. I could feel it. It was so much bigger and steadier than mine. And I had a few hopeful images that came to me while I was there. I got up from there a while later and felt good for the first time in s long while. I did that periodically until I got on an even keel again.

      1. Judy Avatar
        Judy

        I believe that. When I was 14 and parents going through bad times, I hugged trees in a hickory stand. I could feel the healing energy and heal them making sounds to each other and groaning with the wind.

    5. Trescia Avatar
      Trescia

      They were right. All my life, tree
      s have shared their energy with me when I am emotionally upset and they have noticeably calmed me and uplifted me. I love trees!

    6. Liz Avatar
      Liz

      That’s beautiful, Hazel. ☺️
      I always had a feeling about trees. Have never been very up on science, but it has always been my feeling that this is the way of trees. Have never heard then talking, but have certainly felt their energy + presence. Trees are so beautiful, not to mention necessary for our planets survival + well being. You’d think they’d get treated a little better.

  13. Sylvia Verduin Avatar

    It is or seems like the breathe of life where we all come through.

  14. Tim Avatar
    Tim

    I think that’s actually a native American belief. But I believe it too.

  15. Wendy Olson Avatar
    Wendy Olson

    At night I used to listen to the grass grow in the spring you can hear the rapid growth it sounds like a squeaking sound like plastic and plastic but it’s your grass so am pushing up and you can see the blades actually move too.

    At night in a dark place for the sky can be seen with its full stars at my home on Lake superior when the moon is new especially you can see the aura of the trees glow and pulse like a breath slowly expanding contracting and you can see them receiving energy from the solar wins when doe at night in a dark place for the sky can be seen with its full stars at my home on Lake superior when the morning is new especially you can see the aura of the trees glow and pulse like a breath slowly expanding contracting and you can see them receiving energy from the solar winds coming down from the cosmos…you can see them stretch the light of their aura out to each other, communicating at night One of my native teachers told me that the plants drink and grow at night, while in the daytime they are busy absorb sunlight and converting it into into energy from the leaves into the trunk that can be later on converted into sugar into their water to spread along its branches at night and grow.

    1. Aloha Universal Avatar
      Aloha Universal

      Beautiful! Thank you for sharing…
      I can feel & see what you are describing.
      (I live in a congested city, so it is extremely healing to read your post.

  16. Treehugger Avatar
    Treehugger

    If Humans chop bits off anything else with a ‘Heartbeat’ it is considered Grievous Bodily Harm and they can be imprisoned, so should trees now be treated differently and protected as a Living being?? Perhaps experiments should be done when trees are being chopped at to see if the Trees groan (as in pain) as then perhaps Trees would be considered Sentient and left alone…

    1. Lattice Windows Avatar
      Lattice Windows

      My cousin tried to work as a logger but did not last even one day. He said the trees cried when they were being cut down. So yes, they feel pain.

  17. Carna Avatar
    Carna

    Once summer I went without my glasses to strengthen my eyes.
    One night I went outside n saw this wonderous glowing light like an aura around this tree with small colorful balls moving within the aura.
    Got my glasses n looked again n still could see it nobody else could though.

    1. Carna Avatar
      Carna

      No drugs or alcohol

  18. Cheryl Avatar
    Cheryl

    Will never look at a tree in the same light again …. wonderful read..

  19. Will Elison Avatar

    I am an empathic person. I sense spirit in all of living beings. I do well relating to all living creatures. Plants are no exception.

    1. Aloha Universal Avatar
      Aloha Universal

      Absolutely!!!
      <3

  20. Deborah Avatar
    Deborah

    If you know how to use a pendulum, you can communicate with your plants. I used this method to gauge watering indoor plants. They seem to grow better when watered only when they are ready. Don’t forget to actually touch the plant with one hand and use the pendulum in the other.

  21. Erna Avatar
    Erna

    It sure bothers me when people don’t have the correct information and are ignorant to the fact, like Aarhus is a city in Denmark. Denmark and the Netherlands are very different countries. If you’re going to write about something check on these Minor Details.
    I am glad people are waking up to th a ‘life’ of trees are everything is alive

  22. SamJS Avatar
    SamJS

    The thought begs the question, “Do they scream when cut down, or burned during a forest fire?”

    I won’t be able to sleep until I know the answer now.

  23. Laura Gesualdi Avatar
    Laura Gesualdi

    Everything is round is alive .. we just don’t appreciate or value it because we don’t recognize it. When my son was little I told him we loved the tress. He would stop on our walks to hug them

  24. Audry Durham Avatar
    Audry Durham

    BE One withthe tree, loggers say they hear the trees cry when they are cut down

  25. Caroline Dieterle Avatar

    Listen to “Ombra Mai Fu” – a love song to a Plane tree

    1. Catherine Avatar
      Catherine

      Yes. Thank you.

    2. Carol P Vaccariello Avatar

      HI Caroline,
      I am studying that Aria currently. I sing to my plants. It is a beautiful love song. Anyone can go to Youtube and listen to it. Incredible. I sing to my plants and invite them to sing back to me and they do. I have a machine that can be connected to the plant. Plants are almost always communicating – but our human ears can’t pick up their frequency. This machine “interprets” their song for our human ears. So wonderfully awesome!!

      1. Maria Avatar
        Maria

        What’s the name of this machine?

    3. Christine Avatar
      Christine

      Beautiful ! Thanks

  26. DL Avatar
    DL

    Aarhus University is in Denmark, not the Netherlands

  27. Marianne Avatar
    Marianne

    Aarhus university is in Denmark, not the Netherlands

  28. Diana Avatar
    Diana

    I have just returned from Puerto Rico. The damage to the trees is heartbreaking, I could feel the pain and loss. I could also see the recovery by so many trees that were able to withstand the storm. There is a ceiba tree in Ponce whose roots extend approximately 15-20 minutes away, she is magnificent.

  29. Bridgie Avatar
    Bridgie

    Being a tree hugger this scientific breakthrough makes my heart sing! I’ve had the fortunate experience of hearing trees ‘talk’ – at first I thought people were hiding and whispering but there was nobody around. I couldn’t discern the muffled tree voices but they were really talkative, and I got the sense they were well aware I was eavesdropping which they seemed to be celebrating. Beautiful, life changing experience. My appreciation of trees has soared exponentially since… absolutely breaks my heart when people cut trees down!!!

    1. SueWE Avatar
      SueWE

      That reminds me of one of my experiences years ago when I was being a tree, and I was looking around me on both sides and seeing severed arms and legs up and down the street, and my pain was unbearable seeing my family and friends needlessly destroyed like this. Nobody can tell me that what the electric company does to remove all the branches that grow too close to the elec. lines doesn’t hurt the trees. How would you feel if you were one of those trees?

  30. Mysty Avatar
    Mysty

    BUT…..they say that the heart is NOT a pump! What of this?

    Why do so many people pay no attention to this?

  31. Kimmo Virtanen Avatar
    Kimmo Virtanen

    I grew up surrounded by trees. I played among them and later worked among them. Day and night I could hear them rustling with the wind or with the chatter of the creatures that live in them or among them. The forest was full of life of all sorts, and that life depended on the trees for shelter, concealment, oxygen, even food and water. We need to protect the trees, especially from the ravages that some of our own species inflicts upon them in the name of profit.

  32. Stefanie Mackenzie Avatar
    Stefanie Mackenzie

    Ok, so what is PC to eat now? Animals are out, and veganism seems encroached on now….I mean really. It’s only a matter of time. Will we go back to everything is ok?

  33. Stefanie Mackenzie Avatar
    Stefanie Mackenzie

    What happens now that we are about to say veganism is non PC?

  34. Ashish Avatar
    Ashish

    Lived in a rented place last year and there were some flowering plants, neglected and on the verge of death. I watered them and soon they were healthy. One day as I was walking besides them I got a feeling as if I just drank water after feeling parched. There was no reason for me to feel that way because I was neither feeling thirsty nor was I drinking water. Then I realised it was those plants sending that feeling as Thank You to me. Changed the way I look at plants now not only did they recognised me they sent a Thank You too…

  35. Eva Gold Avatar
    Eva Gold

    Everyone who is interested in this should read the novel “The Overstory” by R. Powers. Amazing book about this very reality of the world of trees.

  36. Catherine Avatar
    Catherine

    Trees remind me of the spine going up to the brain.

    So beautiful.

  37. Anthony Casey Avatar
    Anthony Casey

    I think this research is fantastic and just let’s us know that we still have a lot to learn .I am a plants man and I live for plants and I am so excited by these revelations.I always believed that plants were like humans in so many ways.I would love to keep in touch and congratulations on your scientific discovery.

  38. Jie Li Avatar

    Not only trees, all plants and life forms on the earth have their ‘heartbeat’… all life are living with universe rhythms. Therefore, herbal medicine is natural medicine. Albert Einstein said: ‘Future medicine will be the medicine of frequencies.’ …
    There is a Chinese saying: “Truthfully talking is from heart.’ Trees can talk with us and can cure our emotional disorders and pure our sprits… try to feel it..

  39. Michael Avatar

    Trees are breathing creatures with skin, veins, circulation and nerves. You can feel pain and be happy, have paranormal abilities and soothing healing powers. You can communicate with humans, heal your soul and body, change your character, and give comfort.
    http://www.celtic-lifetreemassage.com/der-baum/

  40. rayeanne king Avatar
    rayeanne king

    Please share with The Talking Tree Sisterhood.

  41. Sherry Salomon Avatar

    We are living in a condo in Portland, Oregon that looks directly into Washington Park, the gateway to Forest Park and over 26 miles of hiking trails. I can sit for hours on our balcony looking at the Giant Sequoia (which is designated a Heritage tree by the city of Portland) and the numerous Douglas Firs in Washington Park. I can feel the energy of the trees even from afar. When I practice my gratitude meditation each morning, I thank the universe for the privilege of being near these magnificent giants.

  42. Nancy Avatar
    Nancy

    I love reading this thread. Some very conscious and corned people sharing.

    1. Nancy Avatar
      Nancy

      So true, Nancy. It’s refreshing!

  43. ELIZABETH BROWN Avatar
    ELIZABETH BROWN

    Really now, what took them so long. A tree is like a spine, you have the trunk and then all the nerve ending are the branches. If one of the branches get caught the wrong way it is considered a pinched nerve and then there starts the pain (sciatica), so to me that would go to reason that the tree has to have a heart. Even the spine of a book has a heart, if that breaks the book could fall apart showing that it has lost its beat

  44. Dagmar Avatar
    Dagmar

    Aarhus University is in Denmark. The Netherlands is a totally different country.

    Denmark/Danes/Copenhagen is to Netherlands/Dutch/Amsterdam.

  45. Printhan Manoharan Avatar
    Printhan Manoharan

    Those heart beats are as a result of xylem refilling process in the night as well as in the day( xylem water breaks make a sound of heart beat).

  46. Amiya chatterjee Avatar

    First Remove the barbaric ads of jewlleries from this page.
    Social life is extremely interesting book about Trees.

  47. Emma Avatar
    Emma

    When I took acid and listened to the trunk of a tree for ages, I heard plumbing noises. Quiet tinkering and clicking and flowing of water, I was convinced it was the functioning of the tree!!

  48. Issam Avatar
    Issam

    Does it mean that the theory of osmose is completly mistaken ? Or will we combinates both theories ( osmose and hearthbeat ) to explain the processus of hydric and mineral nutrition ?

  49. Richard Schueler Avatar
    Richard Schueler

    Aarhus is in Denmark,

    not the Netherlands.

  50. Mark Power Avatar
    Mark Power

    Trees have a heartbeat, trees sleep and trees communicate through mats of underground fungi..the day is not long off when we have the same regard for plants as we do for animals ( some of us).

  51. Youri Boerlage Avatar
    Youri Boerlage

    Aarhus university is not in the Netherlands….

  52. Andy Hirons Avatar
    Andy Hirons

    This is not a reputable article

  53. Mark Seibold Avatar

    …or as Einstein said, For me, the mystery is enough.

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