If trees could talk

I wonder, if trees could talk, how would that be? Imagine, if you are walking into or simply near a forest, and you hear the trees chatting away.

Would it be bothersome? No, I don't think so. See, just as the whistling of the wind, the twittering of the birds, the sound of a train passing by in distance and so forth, we would be accustomed with the tree's chattering. Never would you walk around in a forest in complete stillness, but you would be surrounded by voices and life.

Of course, that would remove the pleasantness of a quiet and still walk in the forest, but simultaneously it would open up a new, previously unknown dimension. Imagine walking into the forest, sitting down on a big piece of rock, and having a chat with a tree. All the things you could learn, and not only from the tree to whom you are talking; I rest assured that that tree has been talking to that other tree, who in turn has been talking to the third tree, and so on, which might result in you hearing a 200 year old story from Mali.

And meanwhile, in a parallel universe in which trees do talk, parallel-universe me writes a blog entry about how awful, yet rather relaxing, a world in which trees do not talk would be.