How native speakers pronounce “forest”

Actually, do you know that old philosophical thing, "If a tree falls in a forest, and nobody hears it, did it happen?" Remember that old chestnut?

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I saw a great T-shirt recently, which said, "If a man speaks his mind in a forest, and no woman hears him, is he still wrong?"

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two weeks in a cabin in the middle of a forest may not be an option for you two hours in your favorite coffee shop

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teach us things that matter quite a lot to the general population. Like a tree standing outside a forest, the outliers and the exceptions draw our attention

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but one also loses a tree within a forest. But the tree that stands out by itself

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of life on this planet. There are cycles of decay that are driving forest growth, and there are networks of fungus beneath your feet

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We walked through historic towns, through dense forest, past former plantations.

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such as how he lived like a bird from what he could find on the forest floor during not one but two world wars,

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who, as a monk lived on closest terms with silence for 27 years, then the forest suddenly becomes magnificently real. Your phone is ringing right now, I’m sure.

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I think we've been missing the forest through the trees when it comes to AI. We've been so focused, almost obsessed,

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they enter a period of disorientation that the hindis call Forest dwelling and the abrahamic faiths call Desert dwelling

Desert

Since I was little, I always loved nature. I always loved the feeling of being in a forest. For me, the forest is more valuable than gold.

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I always loved the feeling of being in a forest. For me, the forest is more valuable than gold. My name is Claudia Vega and I work in the Peruvian Amazon.

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So for me, my dream is like, people can see the value of the forest. It's actually doing something for us.

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like it was yesterday hiking through a dense forest the smell of pine trees birds chirping overhead

Slow Spaces

we would weigh 10 times as much as all the wild mammals put together. We cut roads through the forest. We have added little plastic particles to the sand on ocean beaches.

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Massive ripple effects changed grasslands into forests, changed the composition of forest from one tree to another. So even in these Edens,

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second-growth forests generally, the entire East Coast, where after agriculture moved west, the forest sprung up. And of course, pretty much all of Hawaii,

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where exotic species totally dominate. This forest here has Queensland maple, it has sword ferns from Southeast Asia.

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And non-native insects have been used to control pathogens and invasive pests. And there's one more iconic species that could come back to this forest. That's the American chestnut tree.

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it was the most abundant tree species across the eastern deciduous forest. It's lumber was used to create fine musical instruments

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And until 1800, there were four billion of these trees across the forest until blight, a fungal blight that came in, imported,

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These genetically modified trees right now are the first chance in 100 years to restore these majestic trees to the forest. The US Department of Agriculture right now is reviewing these trees

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most likely not mutual. In the forest close to Arne Johan's house, the owls are now gone because of deforestation.

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the steady mountain, your favorite swimming spot, the forest and all its inhabitants -- it seems quite natural that we feel emotional pain.

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that does not act to protect our fundamental home, a system that disconnects us from nature, the soil, the forest, the ocean, the air.

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And people just kind of forget the fruits that can be picked off the forest floor. Health workers,

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almost in the same sentence? Same goes for other forest foods. I have heard story after heartrending story

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of famine and starvation, of people surviving on trash foraged out of the forest, because there was no food.

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to the atmosphere than were it left alone to decompose in the forest. Yet all of these innovations --

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And that’s why I said, "Thank you for being here." Because it's sort of like that tree in the forest falling; and if there's no one there to hear, does it really make a sound?

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