I remember Prince Charles talked to his trees. Research now shows that trees talk to each other. Well, communicate, not talk. Apparently there are links between trees underground, and they have been shown to pass chemicals to each other through them. So think twice before cutting a branch off a tree – you could get a forest angry.
I remember Ian Botham being done for smoking cannabis. The argument in his favour was that him smoking in his house didn’t affect anybody else. I always remember thinking – if that really was true then he would never have been arrested, because nobody would have known.
Truth is we are connected just like the trees, and what we do affects our communities. I’m not sure what chemicals the trees pass between them and what effect it has, but they say it has an effect. I’m not sure what you are communicating with your community or the effect, or how I am communicating and the effect. But one thing we can do is to be aware of the signals we are getting and respond positively to them.