Yes. If we could share with the tree the memories of what has happened here on this island...to this world even. It could endure! The memories could let others ahead of us know what occured.

...and the consequences of abusing the world they live in. [He reaches into his coat and produces his battered journal.] Plants and life endure when books and technology don't. That's the only thing I could think of to ensure this cycle doesn't repeat.