Maisha ya Siri ya Miti

Peter Wohlleben: The Hidden Life of Trees

KISWAHILI

"Sababu moja ambayo wengi wetu tunashindwa kuelewa miti ni kwamba inaishi katika upeo wa macho wa wakati tofauti na sisi. Moja ya miti kongwe zaidi duniani, msonobari nchini Uswidi, ina zaidi ya miaka 9,500. Hiyo ni mara 115 zaidi ya wastani wa maisha ya binadamu….

“Misukumo ya umeme inayopita kwenye mizizi ya miti, kwa mfano, husogea kwa kasi ndogo ya theluthi moja ya inchi kwa sekunde. Lakini kwa nini, unaweza kuuliza, miti huendesha misukumo ya umeme kupitia tishu zao kabisa? Jibu ni kwamba miti inahitaji kuwasiliana, na misukumo ya umeme ni mojawapo tu ya njia zao nyingi za mawasiliano."

-Peter Wohlleben ni mwandishi wa Ujerumani, mkulima wa misitu, na mhifadhi

ENGLISH TRANSLATION

“One reason that many of us fail to understand trees is that they live on a different time scale than us. One of the oldest trees on Earth, a spruce in Sweden, is more than 9,500 years old. That’s 115 times longer than the average human lifetime….

“The electrical impulses that pass through the roots of trees, for example, move at the slow rate of one third of an inch per second. But why, you might ask, do trees pass electrical impulses through their tissues at all? The answer is that trees need to communicate, and electrical impulses are just one of their many means of communication.”

-Peter Wohlleben is a German author, forester, and conservationist.

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Kuhusu (About):

KISWAHILI

Peter Wohlleben (anayeishi) ni msitu mashuhuri wa Ujerumani ambaye ana mbinu isiyo ya kawaida ya kilimo cha misitu. Yeye ni mwandishi ambaye anaandika juu ya mandhari ya ikolojia na ni mtetezi mwenye shauku wa uhifadhi wa miti.

ENGLISH TRANSLATION

Peter Wohlleben (living) is a notable German forester who has an unconventional approach to silviculture. He is an author who writes on ecological themes and is a passionate advocate for tree conservation.

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KISWAHILI: Asante na tutaonana tena,

Mmerikani

ENGLISH TRANSLATION: Thank you and may we see each other again,

Mmerikani

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Chanzo (source): Wohlleben, Peter. Foreword to The Hidden Life of Trees, by Tim Flannery. Book translation by Jane Billinghurst. Vancouver, Berkeley: Greystone Books, 2016, location 34-42. Kindle Edition.