I talked about this in a thread yesterday. It is a good topic so I thought I would start a thread on it. The trees that we used to have on this planet were something amazing they were bigger than we can imagine. Think Redwoods. We decimated them during our industrial revolution. Now all we have are smaller trees.
It is a great loss. People of today dont even know what one of those trees looked like. They are lost to history. Some trees were up to 20 ft in diamater. We cant even imagine that today. That is as wide as a living room, or two, depending on the size of your home.
The thing is that we dont even know that we are missing out on something because we havent had those trees in our lifetime. But we are missing something. I imagine there could be a future where even the trees we have now are something that people may not know ever existed. The trees we have now are the size of saplings in comparison to the trees of old. The trees of old were a marvel.
One record breaking find was an old cedar that was near 24 foot around and 227 foot tall with a canopy that spread 49 feet. that is amazing. http://www.thedailyworld.com/life/th...ult-big-cedar/
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