It is good to know the truth, but it is better to speak of palm trees

If I were to be reborn, I'd like to be a tree.
A poplar tree has about 45,000 genes compared to the human genome of about 25,000.
The tree form has evolved separately a number of times from unrelated classes of plants. The earliest forms were tree ferns, horsetails and lycophytes.
The oldest tree, an African Baobab, is probably 6,000 years old.
How does time pass for a tree? Or maybe it's a thought it can do without.
Perhaps Immanuel Kant is right when he says: from such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
Do trees communicate? I suppose that depends on what you're listening for.
There's research published on the way that plants interrelate via the rhizosphere - see, for example How plants communicate using the underground information superhighway which gives evidence that complex, root multitude exudates play a role in root-root and root-microbe communication.
In a similar vein, scientists have discovered that bacteria talk to each other - see Bonnie Bassler's TED talk.
And from another point of view, Buddha attained enlightment after meditating under the Bodhi tree, then spent a whole week afterwards staring at it in gratitude.