A tree’s heartwood is the dense, mature wood found at the centre. It is the oldest part of the tree, which has often observed centuries of life. Rather than non-living, as some biologists have come to define it, I consider heartwood as the embodiment of a collection of deep-rooted memories. These memories have captured the stories of our Earth in the form of particles, communicated in annual tree rings. If we were to look closely, if we were to listen in, we might reach into this cavernous environmental knowledge that has been preserved, alongside the stories told through roots, trunk, branches, ...
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