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Originally Posted by dogsbody70
those trees look incredible. Its strange really. My japanese friend tells me that all plants have feelings that they cry.
I am no expert at all on plants--
it does make sense though that if the tree were unhappy that it would not thrive.
It surely is a great skill to train these trees to follow the path set up by its MASTER/Mistress.
I don' tknow about the history of BONSAI. Would it be that there was very little space to allow trees to develop as nature intended?
You will notice I am totally ignorant but truly fascinated and an admirer of the way that NATURE can be moulded. I guess that with skill that is the case with so much of nature isn't it?
We do have to mould and direct. manipulate to encourage a supply of food for the world.
I agree that to keep a large dog in a small flat is not good.Neither are so many things in this world.
thanks again.
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You're welcome!
I have to note that I'm not very good at English, so please be patient if I mistook something what you say.
As I know in Japan many research intend to discover various responses, given by various "unanimated" sources. I have a book about water molecules' reactions. It's written by one Japanese author, who'd made the microscopic photos to prove it makes different 'faces' if it receives different influences (sometimes only a written sentence made the affect). Also I've heard that they tried to prove the 'feeling plant' theory with some + results. Of course it's kind of silly, but I can give place to it. Everything has some response to what it might contact, that is one proven fact. I think it's up to us that, how may we call it -- a reaction of a soul or the chemicals...-it's a beatable sentence, but I don't have other reasons.
As for the bonsai's history, I really don't know much, I can give you the Chinese name: penjing. It may help to discover some facts about the past of bonsai.
It's true though, that many bonsai were originally collected from a place that was 'hostile' to its occupants, I can imagine that Japan has many of those, for rocks and thin soil not very rare there. That is an example from the US:
collecting have fun with it!