Although some on this thread would have you believe I worship trees as gods or treat them as human, that is not the case. I just think that the passing of a thing that has been alive that long is something rare and unusual.
I also think that most humans are idiots and incapable of appreciating the magnitude of anything being able to live for over a thousand years. Their tiny brains are just not able to comprehend anything being more important than beer, sex, and taking a good crap.
It is much more fun to be a sarcastic asshole and make fun of anyone who finds something that old to be an awesome thing.
As to the aspirin thing, I suppose I could be like some on this thread and call you an idiot for not knowing what I am talking about, but I won't. One person can't know everything.
Thank you for your service.
It's not that rare at all, it happens continuously in the sequoia forest......it's just that that particular dead tree fell across that hiking trail and nobody knows what the hell to do about it.........nobody with common sense that is.
Dead trees, even in the sequoia forest is not an unusual event Teeny, it's a regular event. So stop patting yourself on the back and attempting to declare yourself an elitist simply because you happen to have an affinity for trees that do die and fall down.
The only difference between you and us is that we know what to do with fallen trees..........