next to it, to the right, are the results of digging a well in 1938... after all, in the middle of the desert, a tree managed to live for decades after all other trees had died, and that means it's roots went all the way down to water... and they did. 110 feet deep to the water table, as that well that was dug next to it discovered.
1939, as you can see, it was much larger, as it had two trunks then
In the 1940s a careless driver somehow smashed into it with his truck, knocking down one of its two brittle trunks. The driver then hacked the tree off at the stump, likely in an effort to hide what he had done.
What was left was knocked down by a drunk Libyan truck driver in 1973, he was either taking a photographer out to the tree to get it documented, or he was “following a roadway that traced the old caravan route, collided with the tree, snapping its trunk,” TreeHugger reports.
He hit the only object in 500 miles.
The driver’s name never surfaced, but rumors abound that he was drunk at the moment that he plowed into the only obstacle for miles—the tree.
That sums up the human race it seems.... somehow we will kill off the rest of the living things on this planet. Either deliberately, like the bleach bombs that stun tropical fish and kill coral reefs, or negligently, like this tree
So here's to a tree that existed for about 300 years without interference, until a couple useless humans found it impossible to avoid hitting it with vehicles.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_of_T%C3%A9n%C3%A9r%C3%A9
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/the-most-isolated-tree-in-the-world-was-killed-by-a-probably-drunk-driver-5369329/
https://thetreeographer.com/2018/03/08/the-worlds-loneliest-tree-the-tree-of-tenere/
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