Vanessa M.’s Reviews > The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World > Status Update

Scientists discovery of crackling roots.

"But a pair of true friends is careful right from the outset not to grow overly thick branches in each other's direction. The trees don't want to take away from each other, and so they develop sturdy branches only at the outer edges of their crowns, that is to say, only in the direction of "non-friends."