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Imagine you're walking through a forest.
想象你正穿行在森林中。
I'm guessing you're thinking of a collection of trees,
我猜你想的是一大片樹，
what we foresters call a stand, with their rugged stems and their beautiful crowns.
我們林業(yè)工作者稱之為“林分”，它們有著遒勁的枝干，和美麗的樹冠。
Yes, trees are the foundation of forests, but a forest is much more than what you see,
是的，樹是森林的基礎(chǔ)，但是森林可比你看到的復(fù)雜多了，
and today I want to change the way you think about forests.
而今天我想改變一下你們對(duì)森林的看法。
You see, underground there is this other world,
你知道嗎，森林的地下是另外一個(gè)世界，
a world of infinite biological pathways that connect trees and allow them to communicate
一個(gè)擁有無限的生物通路的世界，這些通路把樹木連接起來，使得它們可以彼此溝通，
and allow the forest to behave as though it's a single organism.
也使森林表現(xiàn)得好像一個(gè)單獨(dú)的有機(jī)體。
It might remind you of a sort of intelligence.
這可能會(huì)讓你想到某種程度的智慧。
How do I know this? Here's my story.
我是怎么知道這些的呢？來聽聽我的故事吧。
I grew up in the forests of British Columbia.
我是在不列顛哥倫比亞省（加拿大）的森林中長(zhǎng)大的。
I used to lay on the forest floor and stare up at the tree crowns.
那時(shí)我總喜歡躺在森林的地面上，向上望著那些樹冠。
They were giants. My grandfather was a giant, too.
它們都是巨人。我的祖父也是個(gè)巨人。
He was a horse logger, and he used to selectively cut cedar poles from the inland rainforest.
他是一名伐木工，他以前曾在內(nèi)陸雨林有選擇性地砍伐杉木。
Grandpa taught me about the quiet and cohesive ways of the woods, and how my family was knit into it.
爺爺教會(huì)我了解樹木間安靜而緊密連接的溝通方式，以及我們家族是如何融入其中的。
So I followed in grandpa's footsteps.
所以我也追隨了爺爺?shù)哪_步。
He and I had this curiosity about forests,
他和我都有關(guān)于森林的好奇心，
and my first big "aha" moment was at the outhouse by our lake.
我的第一次“頓悟”時(shí)刻是在我們湖邊的外屋的時(shí)候。
