Read them together.

Here's one: a forest's trees might be communicating less like a network of cables and more like a crowded room where everyone is half-listening, and the "wisdom of the forest" is just the accumulated noise that happens to keep the whole place standing.

Here's one: memory might not be a recording of the past at all, but a forecast that we keep revising. Each time you recall something, your brain quietly rewrites it to be most useful for the version of you who needs it now, so your past is less a archive than a draft that the present keeps editing.