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Vital Football Legend
No this is not a 'Young Ones' thread :17:
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Very Old Tree Lives Another Day
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Today, as on many days, on the slopes of the White Mountains in eastern California, the sun beat down on the parched, almost lifeless ground from a cloudless, cold sky. Wind off the Sierra Nevada kicked up flurries of dust. Not much has moved: the white dolomite stone which forms the peaks is strongly alkaline and hostile to nature. It is one of the driest places on the planet. But, as usual, Methuselah hardly noticed. It has seen this sort of thing before. A great many times.
Methuselah is a bristle cone pine tree and one of the oldest living things on earth. It is named after the longest-lived person in the Bible, Noah’s grandfather, who lasted 969 years. It has been alive for 4,854 years.
Cont: http://thephilosophersmail.com/perspective/very-old-tree-lives-another-day-2/
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Very Old Tree Lives Another Day
............................................
Today, as on many days, on the slopes of the White Mountains in eastern California, the sun beat down on the parched, almost lifeless ground from a cloudless, cold sky. Wind off the Sierra Nevada kicked up flurries of dust. Not much has moved: the white dolomite stone which forms the peaks is strongly alkaline and hostile to nature. It is one of the driest places on the planet. But, as usual, Methuselah hardly noticed. It has seen this sort of thing before. A great many times.
Methuselah is a bristle cone pine tree and one of the oldest living things on earth. It is named after the longest-lived person in the Bible, Noah’s grandfather, who lasted 969 years. It has been alive for 4,854 years.
Cont: http://thephilosophersmail.com/perspective/very-old-tree-lives-another-day-2/
