Over the past decade, the discourse surrounding the phenomenon of “internet animals” has gained popularity. This approach involves studying animals and plants using specialized sensors attached to a specific animal or plant. One of the popularizers of this approach, the German writer and journalist A. Presher, examining the genesis of human-nature relationships throughout different stages of human development, concluded that modern humans have almost completely lost their connection with nature. Futile attempts to protect the environment from themselves have led humans to replace real nature with its various representations. These attempts are primarily based on the logic of the myth of a pristine nature governed by its own laws. A. Pschera observes that in the contemporary world, two natures coexist: the nature that exists only in human imagination, shaped by certain approaches within ecological thinking, and wild, real nature, with which humans are almost entirely unfamiliar. He argues that people can often establish a connection only with what is personally familiar to them. Thus, nature must lose its anonymity for humans to restore a meaningful relationship with it.

A tree is a valuable bearer of historical memory, often accumulated over periods many times longer than a human lifespan. For example, one of the pine trees in the Tsaritsyno Museum-Reserve park, located behind the Grand Palace, is over 150 years old. It is difficult to imagine the volume of historical memory contained in even a relatively young tree. To establish a close connection between humans and a tree, it is necessary to break the stereotype of the tree as an emotionless being by giving physical form to the feelings it experiences. In this way, humans can not only reflect on the life of a specific tree and build a personal emotional connection with a member of another biological species but also perceive their own human history through the perspective of the “other”.