xylem

photograph credit/link: E. Iglich
http://www2.mcdaniel.edu/Biology/botf99
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there was a wonderful show about music by the guy who helped the beatles, the sound engineer who produced their records. george martin. he did a series about music. somewhere in the depths of that sequence is a fantastic man who records the sounds trees make from the inside. the sounds of the xylem and the phloem as they pull and pulse the water throughout the plant, feeding. loving, working, singing. it's extraordinary. all music is contained in this. all life is singing. this is a wonderful thing.