What is a tree if you do not call it a tree?

What is a “tree” if you do not label it any kind of tree like a fir, or spruce. Or plant, or organism, what is it?

And you cannot call it an assemblage of leaves, branches, trunk and roots. What is it?

Imagine seeing a tree there before you. It clearly exists but what is it if there is no definition applied to it.

Trees have been around longer than human language, so they have been something before humans called them anything.

But what is a tree? Without any label it mysterious. It is a an undefinable expression of life. Because we name things, we think we know what they are, but naming them reduces them to a superficial concept. . . Like the words art and artists.

​Posted by PH

​

​How can an artist take exclusive and personal credit for creating a work of art that the universe had already been working on for that past 13.8 billion years?

​PH

Philosopher Alan Watts spoke of 10,000 suns composing a paper cup. Here is a video rough sketch (20 seconds) of that idea, which may someday turn into a serious video short. Turn volume all the way up if you are not using headphones.

Posted by PH