Seeing a fallen Sequoia is such a saddening thing. The scale of that tree alone against the endless crowd of munchkins and horses sitting atop it — my god. I can only imagine how many hundreds, if not thousands, of years old that giant was. A tragedy. I hope the pioneers enjoyed that giant pencil.
Did you listen to the radio lab story about the guy who accidentally cut down the oldest living tree? Talk about feeling guilty. http://www.wnyc.org/shows/radiolab/episodes/2010/09/03
Holy crap! I have to listen to that. Thanks for the tip!
These big trees are so amazing. Have you ever been to the Avenue of the Giants? Mind blowing!
Three massive trees fell a few weeks back in a park near my house in West Philly (here’s me beside one for scale): http://www.facebook.com/SarahLouiseHunt#!/photo.php?pid=4780194&op=1&o=global&view=global&subj=1441183605&id=598326734. Can’t imagine seeing that felled redwood in person. INSANITY!
Sorry. That link was bad. Here’s the picture: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mousetrapvintage/4840846821/
Ooh, that’s a sad picture.
It reminds me of the episode of Radio Lab where a man cut down a tree to find out how old it was, only to discover that he had just killed the oldest living thing on the planet. Total tragedy. The episode was titled “Oops”.