If You Were a Tree… – Fan Questions | StarTalk

I’d want to be planted in a wide-open
meadow so that every one of my branches
can receive all the sunlight at once I
don’t want to have to compete for the
photons from the Sun which is what goes
on daily hourly in a forest especially
rainforests where there’s the canopy and
then everything else below has to be
able to live without direct sunlight and
the branches of the trees that keep
reaching for the canopy those branches
that are below they drop dead because
there’s no sunlight to sustain them I
don’t want to be just sort of a just
leaves on the top I want full plumage I
want to be old and wise in the middle of
a meadow and there’s nothing more
beautiful than a solitary tree in the
middle of a field it invites you to sit
under it I don’t have people come sit
under my branches and add a dimension of
romance to their lives
under the branches of my tree one risk
however if you are tree in the middle of
a meadow or in the middle of a field is
that you will get hit by lightning all
right
lightning does not like moving through
air and if you’re reaching up in to the
air it’s gonna go through basically your
wet bark the lightning will pass through
your wet bark and before it connects the
cloud to the ground but maybe that’s
worth it so that all the time until I’m
struck by lightning where it amputates
one of my limbs I think it’ll be worth
it up to that moment for having a
completely full plumage as an ornament
in the center of the field
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