Trees have many associates and over time they have developed unsurpassed means for cooperation with them. Trees and their associates cooperate in synergistic ways. Synergy means that the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. Trees have also developed in ways that do not disrupt the law of increasing mass and energy. The law states that as mass of any system in-creases, the amount of energy necessary to maintain order in the system must increase at an exponential rate.
Trees grow within their means.
And, unlike humans, they never question or complain. They accept and adjust. Trees have no healing system, in the sense of restoring injured and infected tissues. Trees are generating systems. Tree defense is centered about boundaries that form about infections, and that resist their spread.