The Redwoods

Take a tiny seed, put it in the ground, give it lots of water and sunshine and what do you get? Perhaps a watermelon, a tulip, or maybe a redwood tree. Before our redwood can be born its seed must sacrifice itself through death. Just what is a redwood tree? It can best be described below in the following tree biographical profile:

       1  seed

   300   feet tall

6,000   tons heavy

4,000   years old

Two hundred generations of human beings have come and gone since this single seed was buried in the ground. If you have ever visited these titanic timbers in Northern California, they would be guaranteed to leave you breathless. Our government was impressed enough with their awesome stature and beauty to declare them national monuments.

Man, with all his genius, can at best through good, clean living and modern medicine guarantee himself 70 to 100 years of life. Our redwood friends, with no education and no apparent wisdom, have somehow managed to thrive and grow century after century. By chance or by design, if the redwoods could speak, they just might have a fabulous tale to tell.