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Post by Freedom on Sept 2, 2009 1:23:54 GMT -5
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Post by maddogblues on Sept 2, 2009 13:18:45 GMT -5
Wow. Nice. I have a tree home in NY that has multiple trunks. No where as neat as this one.
If you can find it again Take some more shots of the root forms up close.
It looks like a hardwood tree of some kind. I would guess sycamore.
Usually a plant does not do things like that unless it is injured early in its life.
The tree is a metaphor. Man cannot live without an impact on his environment. This shows that man does not respect his environment and wants to mark it with his scent.
The thing I get from it is that well the tree is still there. Probably quite a few who had put their names on it are not alive.
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Post by Freedom on Sept 2, 2009 14:09:39 GMT -5
I know where it is, i'll take more photo's next time.
Sycamore sounds right, the tree is amazing to view in person, it truly is in the middle of nowhere. You're correct on the age thing, it certainly has outlived a few of the artists that mutilated the tree.
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Post by maddogblues on Sept 2, 2009 16:18:16 GMT -5
I know where it is, i'll take more photo's next time. Sycamore sounds right, the tree is amazing to view in person, it truly is in the middle of nowhere. You're correct on the age thing, it certainly has outlived a few of the artists that mutilated the tree. Old man river, just keeps rolling. You know it as the tide as I do now. Before it was the slow progression of seasons. Now with things shutting down I see the tide as the constant ever present change. So hopeful.
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Post by tko on Sept 4, 2009 0:52:58 GMT -5
There is hope. I just went to Sequiao National Park. They have the largest tree in the world there, the General Sherman Tree. From my childhood, the one thing that I remembered about the tree is that people had snuck in and there was graffiti on much of the lower trunk, similar to what is in yout picture, but to a lesser degree.
I just went back. It had been fifteen years. I told my friends that the tree was marvelous, just warned them about the grafitti. The graffiti was gone, however. I was happy.
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Post by maddogblues on Sept 4, 2009 4:35:42 GMT -5
There is hope. I just went to Sequiao National Park. They have the largest tree in the world there, the General Sherman Tree. From my childhood, the one thing that I remembered about the tree is that people had snuck in and there was graffiti on much of the lower trunk, similar to what is in yout picture, but to a lesser degree. I just went back. It had been fifteen years. I told my friends that the tree was marvelous, just warned them about the grafitti. The graffiti was gone, however. I was happy. I love places like that. I was in Yosemite once and there was a tree that had a hole in it big enough to drive a car through. The tree was still living. I think it had also burned, but was still living.
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