 | John Muir - California - 1894 - 406 pages
...most favorable conditions these giants probably live 5000 years or more, though few of even the larger trees are more than half as old. I never saw a Big...on indefinitely until burned, smashed by lightning, or cast down by storms, or by the giving way of the ground on which they stand. The age of one that... | |
 | Forests and forestry - 1900 - 76 pages
...favorable conditions these giants probably live 5,000 years or more, though few of even the larger trees are more than half as old. I never saw a Big...on indefinitely until burned, smashed by lightning, or cast down by storms, or by the giving way of the ground on which they stand. The age of one that... | |
 | United States. Division of Forestry - Giant sequoia - 1900 - 84 pages
...favorable conditions these giants probably live 5,000 years or more, though few of even the larger trees are more than half as old. I never saw a Big...indefinitely until burned, smashed -by lightning, or cast down by storms, or by the giving way of the ground on which they stand. The age of one that... | |
 | United States. Forest Service - Coast redwood - 1900 - 74 pages
...favorable conditions these giants probably live 5,000 years or more, though few of even the larger trees are more than half as old. I never saw a Big...on indefinitely until burned, smashed by lightning, or cast down by storms, or bv the giving way of the ground on which they stand. The age of one that... | |
 | Geography - 1901 - 436 pages
...favorable conditions these giants probably live 5,000 years or more, though few of even the larger trees are more than half as old. I never saw a Big...on indefinitely until burned, smashed by lightning, or cast down by storms, or by the giving way of the ground on which they stand. The age of one that... | |
 | Robert Greenleaf Leavitt - Botany - 1901 - 284 pages
...favorable conditions these giants probably live five thousand years or more, though few of even the larger trees are more than half as old. I never saw a Big...on indefinitely until burned, smashed by lightning, or cast down by storms, or by the giving way of the ground on which they stand. . . . The colossal... | |
 | Robert Greenleaf Leavitt - Botany - 1901 - 284 pages
...favorable conditions these giants probably live five thousand years or more, though few of even the larger trees are more than half as old. I never saw a Big...on indefinitely until burned, smashed by lightning, or cast down by storms, or by the giving way of the ground on which they stand. . . . The colossal... | |
 | California. Department of Public Instruction - California - 1909 - 106 pages
...mere ornamental tuft will try to go aloft and do its best as a leader in forming a new head. * * * "I never saw a big tree that had died a natural death;...indefinitely, until burned, smashed by lightning, or cast down by storms or by the giving way of the ground on which they stand. * * * The colossal scarred... | |
 | Pacific States - 1914 - 88 pages
...of his own soul at the mere delight of living in such paradises of leafy solitude. John Muir says he never saw a Big Tree that had died a natural death....on indefinitely until burned, smashed by lightning, or cast down by storms, or by giving way of the ground on which they stand." "So exquisitely harmonious... | |
 | Herdman Fitzgerald Cleland - Geology - 1916 - 732 pages
...years or more, though few of the larger trees are more than half as old." One careful observer says, " I never saw a big tree that had died a natural death:...on indefinitely until burned, smashed by lightning, or cast down by storms, or by the giving way of the ground on which they stand." (John Muir.) Diatoms.... | |
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I never saw a Big Tree that had died a natural death; barring accidents they seem to be immortal, being exempt from all the diseases that afflict and kill other trees. Unless destroyed by man, they live on indefinitely until burned, smashed by lightning,... 
