Wednesday, July 4, 2018

"Any fool can destroy tress..." John Muir

"Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot run away; and if they could, they would still be destroyed, — chased and hunted down as long as fun or a dollar could be got out of their bark hides, branching horns, or magnificent bole backbones.... Through all the wonderful, eventful centuries since Christ’s time — and long before that — God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand straining, leveling tempests and floods; but he cannot save them from fools, — only Uncle Sam can do that." ~John Muir, “The American Forests,” August 1897

Giant Sequoias

  • Are taller than 21 elephants stacked on top of each other. 
  • Weigh more than ten blue whales combined. 
  • Would take up over three lanes of traffic on a freeway with its base!


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