How native speakers pronounce “tree”

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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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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the outliers and the exceptions draw our attention and lead us into a much greater sense of perhaps what a tree is. We often talk about losing the forests for the trees,

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We often talk about losing the forests for the trees, but one also loses a tree within a forest.

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within a forest. But the tree that stands out by itself makes those relationships that define a tree,

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But the tree that stands out by itself makes those relationships that define a tree, the relationships between trunk and roots and branches,

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much more apparent. Even if that tree is crooked or even if that tree has very unusual relationships

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Even if that tree is crooked or even if that tree has very unusual relationships between trunk and roots and branches,

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And then he would go in for treatment and then he would come back to us. It was a little bit like a sinister version of “The Giving Tree,” only he was trading body parts for time with us.

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a list of giant, you know, giant, you can climb a tree, you can make pancakes, you can walk to the store, whatever it

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attracted just because there's a sidewalk and a tree outside. They're

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my sisters, my brother and me, our knees in the soil under the cherry tree, pressing our hands into the dirt,

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my world, so green. Opened under the cherry tree, pushing a packet of marigold seeds

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to some sweet impossible, under this cherry tree where I know your face, and sing your name, holy, your

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I've always been struck by the fact that things are always valued when they’re dead or extracted, like a tree. But we have not figured out how to create economic systems that value life.

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DH: That's one of my favorite images, actually. I call it, like, the tree of all knowledge. So, you know, we've been talking a lot about science,

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if you imagine all the knowledge that exists in the world as a tree of knowledge, and then maybe what we know today as a civilization is some, you know,

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And I see AI as this tool that allows us, as scientists, to explore, potentially, the entire tree one day. And we have this idea of root node problems

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CA: You know, I was brought up religious. And in the Bible, there’s a story about the tree of knowledge that doesn't work out very well.

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Until now, we have been limited to poor facsimiles, like vast plantations of a single kind of tree. But drones change that by allowing us to gather data

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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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Maybe we can just marvel at the efforts of people over millennia, from the Buddha sitting under the Bodhi tree to the modern philosopher and neuroscientist

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and we've forgotten how to see the nature that is literally right outside our door, the nature of the street tree. So here's an example: Philadelphia.

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And there's one more iconic species that could come back to this forest. That's the American chestnut tree. Historically, this majestic tree

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That's the American chestnut tree. Historically, this majestic tree rained down sweet nuts and fed humans and animals alike for centuries.

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For thousands of years, it was the most abundant tree species across the eastern deciduous forest.

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scientists have tried for decades to figure out how to create a blight-resistant chestnut tree. And it's happened.

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Engineering coral to withstand warming waters, restoring the American chestnut tree, the genetic rescue of the black-footed ferret.

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where we could see such de-extinction taking place? RP: Well, technically the American chestnut tree is almost extinct. You know, people will see some sprouts come up

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And we have totally forgotten foods like huge varieties of tubers, tree saps, fish, shellfish, oil seeds,

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We started by growing 20 trees on a rooftop, and we’ve expanded our tree growth to five towns, cultivating 5,000 cocoa trees and counting,

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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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(Applause) ... tree farm, a performing arts program,

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During COVID, I created this design, the rainbow and the tree of life for Dandelion. Just last fall, in a period of 59 days,

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