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Lessons Learned From The Trees, a Conversation with Pantha du Prince

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Date: 17.09.21

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Author: Laurent Bigarella

Photo Credit: Laurie Diaz


Hello Pantha du Prince. Glad to talk to you today. First, can you explain why you decided to celebrate trees in your latest project “Conference of Trees”? 

Pantha: The core of the whole project started because the trees called me – they really touched me in a way. Then I translated the information, I was just spending a lot of time with them. In a way, we are trees: we have an environment inside of our whole biology, a physiology inside of us. It is only possible because of the plants that live around us: they are a symbol of life. 

Yggdrasil, for example, in the Nordic culture, is the “Weltenbaum” (editor’s note – the world tree). It is a metaphor for life. You grow from the ground, from the unseen, from the soil. Everything that dies gets in the soil and becomes nutrition, for every living thing. The richer the thing that dies is, the richer the soil and the thing that grows out of it will be.

Trees are growing towards the sun, as we humans are growing towards the sun, towards the cosmos. 

They receive information from the cosmos. As we now know, all kinds of information go ...

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