Aug 12, 2026 · 1 hr 42 min · 8 segments
In this episode, Tiger Devine shares his journey from childhood stories to becoming a passionate arborist and storyteller. We explore lessons from trees, the importance of storytelling in learning…
I, you know, the tree, you know, you don't hear a tree, you know, you got a young tree out there and a bigger, an old dead tree falls and, you know, strips half the branches off one side.
That's going to change that tree's future.
And, but they don't, you know, Well, I'd be like this tree if that hadn't happened.
It just doesn't happen in nature, right? And then you have these really weird growing trees with weird wounds on them and crooks and bent trunks that came from some type of incident that occurred, right? And I think that's so much like our lives.
I love the analogy and use it all the time when talking about people and life and everything.
and i love the stories that trees tell by all the wounds and all the crooked branches and bends and twists and all that sort of stuff it's it's really amazing and the resilience that trees show is something to aspire to as a human being and i really love that analogy a lot the compartmentalization component as well yeah yeah hollow trunks and how they can become equally as strong or stronger than a It's full of a lot of parallels there.
Well, and I don't think it's coincidental.
I think that there is, in nature, trees, in all that, there is lessons for life that if we take the time to observe them are really there to help us.
One of my favorite ones in trees, you mentioned compartmentalization.
I think Woundwood is incredible.
analogy right like it you know doesn't replace the lost parts it puts new wood in new places and it's stronger than regular wood.
And then once the wound is no longer felt as a defect, it goes back to producing normal wood.
Like, or if you call it that, you know, it just, what a neat analogy, you know, like, and as long as it has the energy, right.
As long as it has the energy to keep doing that.
So you need to keep, you know, the, the energy flow, uh, going and, uh, connected to the sun.
Yeah.
And we were looking at a tree and we're evaluating it for a monetary cost and whatever else.
And you went straight to looking for... adaptive behavior and growth and everything.
And you're like, look, there's, uh, strong striations on this tree, like really great growth cracks.
I, you know, the tree, you know, you don't hear a tree, you know, you got a young tree out there and a bigger, an old dead tree falls and, you know, strips half the branches off one side.
That's going to change that tree's future.
And, but they don't, you know, Well, I'd be like this tree if that hadn't happened.
It just doesn't happen in nature, right? And then you have these really weird growing trees with weird wounds on them and crooks and bent trunks that came from some type of incident that occurred, right? And I think that's so much like our lives.
I love the analogy and use it all the time when talking about people and life and everything.
and i love the stories that trees tell by all the wounds and all the crooked branches and bends and twists and all that sort of stuff it's it's really amazing and the resilience that trees show is something to aspire to as a human being and i really love that analogy a lot the compartmentalization component as well yeah yeah hollow trunks and how they can become equally as strong or stronger than a It's full of a lot of parallels there.
Well, and I don't think it's coincidental.
I think that there is, in nature, trees, in all that, there is lessons for life that if we take the time to observe them are really there to help us.
One of my favorite ones in trees, you mentioned compartmentalization.
I think Woundwood is incredible.
analogy right like it you know doesn't replace the lost parts it puts new wood in new places and it's stronger than regular wood.
And then once the wound is no longer felt as a defect, it goes back to producing normal wood.
Like, or if you call it that, you know, it just, what a neat analogy, you know, like, and as long as it has the energy, right.
As long as it has the energy to keep doing that.
So you need to keep, you know, the, the energy flow, uh, going and, uh, connected to the sun.
Yeah.
And we were looking at a tree and we're evaluating it for a monetary cost and whatever else.
And you went straight to looking for... adaptive behavior and growth and everything.
And you're like, look, there's, uh, strong striations on this tree, like really great growth cracks.
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