i think that i shall never see ...

a poem lovely as a tree ...
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some famous trees (all from wikipedia)
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wawona tree
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giant sequoia in mariposa grove, yoshemite national park. height was 227 ft (69 m) and was 90 ft (27 m) in circumference. a tunnel was cut in 1881, enlarging a fire scar. it fell in 1969 under an estimated 2-ton load of snow on its crown, estimated age was 2,300 years old.

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wawona tree, 1918

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wawona, 1962

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the fallen tunnel tree, 2006

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chandelier tree

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a 315 ft tall coast redwood tree in leggett, california with a 6 ft wide by 9 ft high hole cut through its base to allow a car to drive through. the hole was carved in 1930s.

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chandelier tree, 1941

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chandelier tree, 2005

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tree of life, bahrain

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a 100+ year old tree that stands alone in the desert about 2 kilometers (1.2 mi) from the highest point in bahrain. the source of water for this tree remains a mystery because it stands in a place completely free of water.

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l'arbre du ténéré, the tree of ténéré

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a solitary acacia that was once considered the most isolated tree on earth. it was the only one within more than 200 km (120 mi).

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it was a landmark on caravan routes through the ténéré region of the sahara and was one of the two trees (the other one is the lost tree) to be shown on a map at scale of 1:4,000,000.

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it was the last surviving tree of a group of trees that grew when the desert was less parched than it is today. this tree has stood alone for decades. during the winter of 1938-1939, a well was dug near the tree and it was found that the roots of the tree reached the water table 33-36 meters below the surface.

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the tree was allegedly knocked down by a drunk libyan driver in 1973. the dead tree can now be found in the niger national museum and it has been replaced by a metal structure on its actual place to represent the tree that was.

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tree of ténéré, 1961

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el arbol de tule (spanish), the tule tree

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it has the stoutest trunk of any tree in the world. in 2005, the trunk had the circumference of 36.2 m (119 ft), equation to a diameter of 11.62 m (38.1 ft). it is so large that it was originally thought to be multiple trees, but dna tests have proven that it is only one tree.

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the age is unknown, with estimates ranging betwee 1,200 and 3,000 years. the tree is occasionally nicknamed the "tree of life" from all the images of animals that are reputedly visible in the tree's gnarled trunk, including jaguars and elephants.

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boab prison tree

a large hollow adansonia gregorii (boab) tree just south of derby, western australia. reputed to have been used in the 1890s as a lock up for indigenous australian prisoners on their way to derby for sentencing.

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in recent years, a fence was erected around the tree to protect it from vandalism (see photo below). current vandalism is expected to vanish over the next 50 years.

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boab prison tree, 1960
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stafford giant or luna

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a redwood tree between 600 and 1,000 yeard old and live in an old growth forest - headwaters forest in humboldt county, california.

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this is the tree where julia butterfly hill lived in for 738 days. she lived in a platform 180 ft above the forest floor (approximately 18 stories high) in order to save the grove from being clear cut by the pacific lumber company. it was christened luna in october 1997. hill descended on december 18, 1999.
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in november 2000, an unknown vandal cut halfway through the tree using a chainsaw. a system was designed to help the tree withstand the extreme windstorms. they installed a steel cable collar around luna'a main trunk 100 ft above the ground. cables radiate from this collar to remote anchor points 100-150 ft away. luna still lives on.

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julia butterfly hill up on luna