10 Amazing and Magnificent Trees

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beejay3 — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 16:32:37 GMT

Delightful! such amazing variety on this earth! let's learn to be good stewards!

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Dee2P — Sun, 18 May 2008 22:50:31 GMT

An amazing tree is my most favorite thing in the whole world. When ever I take a vacation I come back with more pictures of trees than anything else. Isn't it interesting that the Holy Bible begins and ends with a tree.

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ctech8 — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 13:17:35 GMT

The Giant Sequoias are also growing in Bristol RI. Blithewold mansion and gardens has 13 of them with the tallest being about 100 feet. Check out at www.blithewold.org.

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TWS500 — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 23:48:01 GMT

If you travel to Maui, don't miss the famous and beautiful banyon tree in Lahaina... They hold arts and crafts markets under it ... It has spread out to about a square block and is amazing...!!

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Yod — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 00:22:49 GMT

I'm still trying to make sense of this tree I have on my computer. I mean, there's files with files and subdirectories...

Axel used to live 2 miles from where I am now and some of his trees are still there. It was amazing the first time I saw his property. I later got a job at Seagate, right next door. These redwoods are beautiful. I have 23 of them on my 1/4 acre property. State park's right across the street with 2,000 plus year old beauties.

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saynotoquacks — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 21:56:16 GMT

Trees are very sacred. They hold the Earth and Sky in balance. They hold the earth in place and prevent mudslides. Such ancient, sacred things must be revered.

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INKY DINKY — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 21:36:16 GMT

I own (well, actually borrow while on this earth) 80 acres and most of it is a tree farm. Trees are harvested, periodically and selectively. Doing so, encourages a beautiful forest with maximum growth potential. I never underestimate the oneness with nature while walking through the woods - always a good reminder. Best Wishes...

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kittyangel846 — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 21:11:06 GMT

I love trees and I wish people would stop chopping so many of them down.

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HealingMindN — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 20:49:12 GMT

Trees represent robust fractals in nature. They also reflect the fractals of relaxation in our minds, so can meditate upon them - and even hug them to drain away negative energy; they are our natural bioenergetic connection with the earth.

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SherylB — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 18:35:21 GMT

"Ugh! Hope this doesn't bring more people here"

I find this statement offensive.

What makes you so special?

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Lynn_Deitz — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 16:39:54 GMT

Giant Sequoias do not only grow in Sierra Nevada, California. We have these trees in Bristol and Newport, Rhode Island, however, they just do not grow as big. Would love to send you a picture of one growing in the Congregational Church yard here in Bristol but there is no way of adding a jpeg to this comment area.

Lynn Deitz

LD218@fullchannel.net

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HappyDaze — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 12:55:39 GMT

Some years ago I saw (somewhere on the internet) how someone had made trees in their garden into living furniture.

I did a search under "arbour sculpture: and here is one site that depicts some of the furniture I saw..... makes me want to do some long term gardening!!! (Don't be put off by the link title!)

www.slightlywarped.com/.../trees.htm also www.slightlywarped.com/.../trees.htm

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shiva — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 00:42:39 GMT

Wow,... really enjoyed seeing the photos of the trees in this article. The "Teapot Boabab" is quite unusual and I loved that bathroom inside the tree. Looks like something a Hobbit might have.

Nature never ceases to amaze.

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foxtroter_203 — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 23:20:19 GMT

No wonder so many people keep moving to California. So many of the 10 greatest trees are here. Ugh!! Hope this doesn't bring more people here--hehe.

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Islander — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 20:06:52 GMT

Wow.

A wild cherry is doing a Pando in my back yard as we speak. Well, as I type.

An interesting tree not mentioned in the article is the ginkgo, the last remaining gymnosperm in a world of angiosperms. The male and the female are separate trees, taking about 20 years to reach sexual maturity. The males shed sperm; the females drop foul-smelling eggs. Water unites them.

Ginkgos are used widely in urban landscaping since they tolerate pollution so well. Wisely, only male clones are used. However, the Eastman Kodak Company in Rochester, NY made the mistake of planting trees grown from seed (and thus unsexed) around their parking lot. Twenty years later, the fumes from the eggs as cars run over them is... uh... "revolting" is too kind a word.