Do trees feel pain?

Actually, Kts, fish and other sea creatures are older then trees I think.

Trees are not the oldest, simply because without water or soil, they would cease to exist.
Fish came before trees, aswell as coral and underwater plants.

I do not mean the oldest creature to have lived on earth. I mean that they are the oldest creature to still be living. This on is almost 10,000 years old.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/04/080414-oldest-tree.html

This one is almost 5,000 years old.

http://www.tree-facts.com/oldest_tree/oldest_tree.html

cool info that Methuselah tree looks great who would say its so old :D

That makes more sense. I thought you meant oldest as in first here. :) Yeah, trees tend to have longer life-spans then organic creatures do.

Another question...do all trees have a tree spirit in them?
Your opinions/facts again =)

Every living thing has a Spirit. Even mushrooms. :)

A tree is an organic creature and oil is also organic. (The word organic is so misused today)

And of coarse a tree has a spirit. Just as all living things do. Even the liken and the moss. (I am liken the moss ;)

Kts, I was using the secondary definition for my statement. Here is the whole definition of the word "organic" from Webster's Online Dictionary.

1) Archaic: instrumental.

2)
a: of, relating to, or arising in a bodily organ.
b: affecting the structure of the organism.

3)
a(1): Of, relating to, or derived from living organisms (2): Of, relating to, yielding, or involving the use of food produced with the use of feed or fertilizer of plant or animal origin without employment of chemically formulated fertilizers, growth stimulants, antibiotics, or pesticides .
b(1): Of, relating to, or containing carbon compounds (2): Relating to, being, or dealt with by a branch of chemistry concerned with the carbon compounds of living beings and most other carbon compounds.

4)
a: Forming an integral element of a whole: fundamental .
b: Having systematic coordination of parts: organized .
c: having the characteristics of an organism: developing in the manner of a living plant or animal .

5) Of, relating to, or constituting the law by which a government or organization exists.


If I used the word wrong even by the second definition, then to clarify I was referring to the organic creatures who have organs. Thus not plants. :) And I apologize for the misuse of the word.

Trees are alive, they grow and need nutrients to survive. Of course they would have some way of feeling pain. Which is why we must respect nature and not treat everything as a object we have the right to abuse