The reason is that the aspen sends up new shoots from the roots. In a small grove, all of the trees may actually be connected by their roots!
Giant California redwood trees may tower 300 feet into the sky. It would seem that they would require extremely deep roots to anchor them against strong winds. But we're told that their roots are actually quite shallow -- in order to capture as much surface water as possible. And they spread in all directions, intertwining with other redwoods.
Locked together in this way, all the trees support each other in wind and storms. Like the aspen, they never stand-alone. They need one another to survive.
People, too, are connected by a system of roots. We are born to family and learn early to make friends. We are not meant to survive long without others.
And like the redwood, we need to hold one another up. When pounded by the sometimes vicious storms of life, we need others to support and sustain us.
Have you been going it alone? Maybe it's time to let someone else help hold you up for a while. Or perhaps someone needs to hang on to you.
-Author Unknown-
*Thanks to Cleo who sent me this article.
Anonymous No man is an island and the world was not created for hermit ! People need each other for bad or for good. This world can be a safer place for abode if everyone of us can sow a little more LOVE.
The very people that we have to hate sometimes (bad, rogue politicians) are people with families too. Let us choose to hate their sins but love them for what they are. They may not like what they are doing as they are under the system of Parliamentary "whip" i.e to toe the line no matter what and this stillborn way of curbing freedom of democracy must be buried the moment a new coalition party is in power at the FED.
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