The annals of Human history have been recorded through text, art, and oral tradition. However, for hundreds of years tropical forests have also kept detailed records of the human activities that unfolded around them. Researchers now describe how the rings, physical chemistry, and DNA of living tropical trees reveal the impacts of native culture as well as the scars of colonial occupation. [1] Changing the trees. At the end, we will even kill the forest. And we will laugh. And we will celebrate.

And then, for no apparent reason, we will cry…

And realize that the forest had changed us as well…

We want to plant seeds now.

But where to do that?

There are trees everywhere…

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