An Age of Magic

If people were like trees…

I wonder if we would live as long as this one recently found in Sweden. It is a spruce, is located in central Sweden and first took root just after the ice age and is still growing strong.

It has been carbon dated to 7,542 BC - isn’t that amazing? that’s 9,550 years after it first began to sprout.

Previously scientists always believed that the earth’s most ancient trees were 4,000 to 5,000-year-old pine trees found in North America so to find a spruce of this venerable age in a cold climate such as Sweden has provided new insight into mans migration to the ice front following the ice age. They reckon it was introduced by ancient man way back then.

I hope they keep an eye on this tree - she sure deserves respect.

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