Why Trees and People Form Mutually Beneficial Relationships

This interview with Marc Berkoff was published on Psychology Today.

Science is starting to show that some plants have capacities like memory, learning, communication, relationality, and recognizing self and kin.
There is a growing scholarly interest in plants throughout the humanities, sometimes called the Vegetal Turn or plant humanities.
Trees and plants can benefit from humans tending to their environment, which enhances or grows the ecological community.