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It was a DVD of Jacques Cousteau in Tazmania. They showed a slow growing variety of native pine that was probably the oldest living thing on Earth. It was estimated to be 5,000 years old. It was found by a logging company and spared the chainsaw because of its unique size. Nevertheless, the narrator (Mel Gibson of all people) said that an accident involving the felling of a neighboring tree knocked it over sometime after the Cousteau film was made.
This tree was older than the pyramids. When the city of Rome was founded, this tree was already ancient. It was old when Moses finished the first draft of Genesis. This tree and it's relatives were Tolkien's Ents, the shepherds and founders of the forest. This variety of tree grows half an inch per year. The whole thing was the result of a search for wood for expensive furniture and ship keels.
We are monsters. Whatever calamity mother nature visits upon us or we upon ourselves, humanity deserves it many times over.
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