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[–] 33 points 6 months ago* (4 children)

Basically me the first time I took shrooms, I could not get past how beautiful just regular old trees are and how I never realized despite them being all around us

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  • [–] 13 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    POV: you just got a good prescription of glasses/contacts.

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  • [–] 13 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    I wish I had the brain power to identify trees or birds the way anyone can cars or motorcycles.

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  • [–] 13 points 6 months ago* (2 children)

    There are books about this, which you can study. Go outside, identify the trees in your neighborhood and with time you will learn to identify them without the book.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago* (1 child)

    You can show me a picture of a bird or leaf a dozen times, I won't remember enough to tell it from other birds and trees. You show me a specific model car or motorcycle once and I can probably remember it forever.

    I wonder if bird-brained people have the same experience traveling, doing a double-take every time they see something that don't exist back home.

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  • [–] 14 points 6 months ago

    Try two dozen times then. And stop talking yourself out of it. If I can learn to identify cars when I once was so absolutely indifferent to them, you can do birds trees. You’re the one standing in the way of yourself here.

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  • [–] 11 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Really well drawn white throated sparrow

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago

    One under-appreciated aspect of leaf design is that in addition to being able to spread out and absorb sunlight, they also need to be of a shape such that in a strong wind they tend to curl up on themselves and provide a minimum of wind resistance. Otherwise their collective sail effect would tend to uproot the tree. Fortunately, there are lots of beautiful ways to solve these related problems.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago*

    Yes ! I'm learning trees right now. I am in awe in very little square and shaded pavement now (*_*)

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    The convergent evolution of lignin is so wild to me. Like some trees are as distantly related to each other, than we are to fungus.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    Leaves are underrated.

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    [–] 5 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    How it felt getting glasses

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