"The council of pecans" gives an example of how nature works together and are connected almost like the trees talk to one another. The example given in the story is of the pecan trees who will produce pecans not in predictable intervals but rather that the pecan trees with produce and release fruit only when they have enough energy stored in there roots. The story also explains that the pecan trees don't individually produce nuts but rather at a collective. Not one tree produces nuts at a time but rather all the trees in the grove produce nuts at the same time, and all groves in the forest produce nuts at the same time,.