There is nothing like a 500 year old Red Gum to make you appreciate your relative significance. There aren't many left if this age and size. This one stands alone, spared from the loggers saw by who knows what twist of luck.
If trees think, this one probably wonders "Where has everyone gone?" Our small twittering is probably a blur of destructive activity between the slow beats of the heartwood and the infinitesimal bend of a 10.89 round trunk.
In another 500 years we will all be recycled fertilizer, but perhaps this Giant Red Gum will still stand. Assuming of course we have not managed to turn everything into a globe wide bowl of silent sterility.
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