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Our poor dog Jigs had slipped and fallen into the pit.
我們可憐的狗吉格斯，腳一滑跌進了一個坑里。
So grandpa ran up with his shovel to rescue the poor dog.
爺爺匆忙抄起一把鐵鏟，跑過去救那只可憐的狗。
He was down there, swimming in the muck.
那狗掉進了深處，在淤泥里掙扎。
But as grandpa dug through that forest floor, I became fascinated with the roots,
但在爺爺挖開森林的地面的時候，我卻被那些露出的樹根深深地吸引了，
and under that, what I learned later was the white mycelium and under that the red and yellow mineral horizons.
我后來發現了，在樹根下面有很多白色的菌絲，再下面就是紅色和黃色的礦質土層了。
Eventually, grandpa and I rescued the poor dog, but it was at that moment that I realized
當然最終我和爺爺救出了那只可憐的狗，但也就是在那時我意識到，
that that palette of roots and soil was really the foundation of the forest.
正是樹根和土壤的混合構成了森林的基礎。
And I wanted to know more. So I studied forestry.
于是我就想了解更多。所以我開始學習林業學。
But soon I found myself working alongside the powerful people in charge of the commercial harvest.
但后來很快我發現我的工作是在那些負責商業化采集的、那些有權有勢的人周圍。
The extent of the clear-cutting was alarming,
在森林中皆伐的范圍已經敲響了警鐘，
and I soon found myself conflicted by my part in it.
我很快意識到我所處位置的矛盾性。
Not only that, the spraying and hacking of the aspens and birches
不僅如此，為了種植更具有商業價值的松樹和冷杉，
to make way for the more commercially valuable planted pines and firs was astounding.
從而噴死或者砍伐掉山楊和樺樹的規模也非常讓人震驚。
It seemed that nothing could stop this relentless industrial machine.
看上去好像沒什么能阻止這些無情的工業機器了。
So I went back to school, and I studied my other world.
所以我回到了學校，轉而研究我的“新世界”。
You see, scientists had just discovered in the laboratory in vitro
你知道，科學家們那時已經在實驗室的試管中發現了
that one pine seedling root could transmit carbon to another pine seedling root.
一棵松樹的幼苗根系可以將碳轉移到另一顆松樹的幼苗根系上。
But this was in the laboratory, and I wondered, could this happen in real forests? I thought yes.
但這僅僅是在實驗室里，所以我想：這也會發生在真正的森林里嗎？我覺得是的。
