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The world's 10 oldest living trees
The world's 10 oldest living trees
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Jon
Oct 24 2012 at 3:03 PM
The Methuselah tree is remarkably close to the the time of Noah's flood, both around 4300-4500 years ago...
Luis
Sep 12 2012 at 6:27 PM
The general sherman tree is only about 2200 years old but it is the world largest tree in the world. You can see a video about the tree here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSwFmUyQn2Q
Guest
Dec 04 2012 at 1:12 PM
NOT LOOK HERE!
Hyperion is the name of a Coast Redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) in Northern California that was measured at 115.61 metres (379.3 ft), which ranks it as the world's tallest known living tree.
http://www.theworldgeography.com/2012/01/10-tallest-trees-on-earth.html
thanks
Guest
Dec 08 2012 at 5:49 AM
Sequoias are the biggest known species I grant you, though not the oldest (cyprus or yew perhaps?), but there is always room for doubt.Perhaps the article should have been called 'Probably the 10 tallest trees in the world'. Or 'The 10 tallest trees in America', given that many Americans think, like the Chinese in the past, that nothing and nobody exists outside their young country...?
Jim Hannington
Aug 01 2012 at 3:20 PM
Wow, I am truly in awe . . . spiritually in awe . . . brings me tears of joy !
Zachary
Jun 15 2012 at 10:18 PM
To be born is to become beautiful, but to witness life throughout the ages is to see beauty. Living for long periods gives you the benefit to see people grow and become more beautiful and yourself become beautiful within.
We are all beautiful people, some of us just don't show it on the outside.
Guest
Jul 08 2012 at 11:12 PM
that is extremely well put, seems you have been thinking on that for awhile
Cliff Long
Jan 17 2012 at 6:50 PM
Now one of the Torrey Pines on the bluff above La Jolla might have taken the oldest tree honor.
Anne
Jan 16 2012 at 11:47 AM
"The Senator" a 3,500 year old cypress. in Longwood Fl unfortunatly perished this morning due to an arsonist. what were they trying to prove? It's such a shame. I loved to visit that tree. It was a spiritual place. the seminol indians used the tree as a landmark back in the day. The senator's sister tree "Lady liberty" still stands. I'm trying not to be negative about this as I am sad and angry that our special tree was a victim of a heinous act. I'd like to think He gave up his life so his
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other brothers and sisters could survive.
Guest
Jun 16 2012 at 5:25 PM
I used to live in Longwood and had no idea about the ancient trees. I would have loved to seet hat tree and I hope the person no monster that did this has a horrible life!
Molly H.
Jun 07 2012 at 11:13 PM
That makes me blind with RAGE! There's no telling what I'd do to an idiot I caught in the act of doing something like this
Kitchen Benchtops
Jan 09 2012 at 6:42 AM
With that in mind, consider the world's 10 oldest living trees. Great...!
purita fleschhut
Jan 07 2012 at 6:13 AM
God made the trees and nurture them. They are one of God's beautiful creations. Through them, we live and breath life.
Yadikn
Santigie Bayo Dumbuya-Sierra Leone
Jul 17 2011 at 5:41 PM
All of us leave traces wherever we go: some are large, others are small; some are ugly, and others are beautiful.
Our ecological footprints depend on our lifestyles. In other words, they depend on how much water , trees and energy we use and whether or not we acquire large quantities of unnecessary things.
For example, all living thing have an equal dignity despite the situation or worth it is to you, we need to protect and care for our environment we find our selves.
It is important to note that
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from the beginning of history until 1900, world population only reached 1.5 billion inhabitants. However, by 2000 this figure had drastically increased to 6 billion.
Latest official current world population estimate, for mid-year 2010, is estimated at 6,852,472,823.
The greater the population of our planet becomes, the more products are required to fulfill our needs. This means that more resources need to be extracted. Therefore human been need to take note of his/her activities in order to protect our green revolution on earth.
Klas Löfström
May 13 2011 at 2:21 AM
According to this article the oldest tree is even older, and not by a hair...
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/04/080414-oldest-tree.html
Mike Starling
Jun 05 2011 at 4:39 PM
Had a discussion with several friends about the age and aloneness of these things and how trees are so complex and even possibly sentient. So your comment really got to me.
wendysuezy
Sep 08 2010 at 9:56 PM
These trees are older than the dinosaur's. That means they where a witness to what ever it was that wiped out Dino. WOW. If they could talk. The things we could learn.
Dave=UK
Jul 29 2010 at 5:32 AM
We can only ever accurately say 'amongst the oldest/largest trees and should add the proviso for the sake of accuracy 'as far as is known'. In his ignorance man has cut down so many great trees, often the largest and thus likely the oldest. In so doing we have threatened these great species and denied them the chance to reach their full glory and we have denied ourselves the knowledge of how old they can be.
Man made huge leaps of discovery in the last three centuries. Starting with the agricultural
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revolution in Britain and the ensuing industrial revolution many amazing advances have been made and feats performed. If only they could have understood back then what indiginous peoples the world over tend to know through a mixture of ancient knowledge, experience, instinct and sometimes just blind superstition:- that rather like mountains, if such great 'beasts' could have lived through the rise and fall of great civilizations then these extraordinary forces of nature ought to be venerated and protected.
As is so often the case, we are only now learning this, but for many examples, and species, it came too late - for them, but also for us and future generations...
la femme artiste
Jun 14 2010 at 3:37 PM
My eyes see a couple in an embrace, not a single tree at all!
Beautiful, graceful, integrated; perhaps a visual metaphor for consciousness. Thanks for posting these images of wisdom, peace and inspiration.
Taking the long view
There are colonies of clonal trees that have lived for tens of thousands of years, but there's something majestic about a single tree able to stand on its own for millennia. These ancient trees have bore witness to the rise and fall of civilizations, survived changing climates, and even persevered through the fervent development of human industry. They are a testament to the long view that Mother Nature takes in tending the Earth. With that in mind, consider the world's 10 oldest living trees. (Text: Bryan Nelson)
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