Nature If you planted an acorn today, no matter how young and healthy you are, you would not live long enough to see it as a fully mature oak tree. It is possible to see trees that were alive when Columbus landed in the New World, and even some that were already old in the time of Julius Caesar.
--THE SIBLEY GUIDE TO TREES BY DAVID ALLEN SIBLEY (ALFRED A. KNOPF, $39.95)
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