Mr. Bennemann, in the foreword to your book you write: If trees could feel fear and pain or even cry out, the entire forest would be filled with their "silent wailing, desperate wailing and silent whimpering for mercy". If it were really the case, as is often being discussed, if trees could actually feel pain, then it would be a terrible drama: On the one hand, because we humans constantly mistreat them, woodpeckers hammer on them, beetles attack them. But also because trees do a lot of bad and mean things to each other.

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