Old trees outlast the people who walked past them.
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There are objects in the world that have been doing what they do for longer than the family you come from has been a family. Trees, mainly. A few rivers. A few stones in front of a few churches. They have outlasted languages, regimes, languages used to describe regimes. None of them know your name. None of them needed to. The grandfather who never moved from his village is the same kind of object, smaller and warmer.
This tree, somewhere at the foot of a Mediterranean mountain, has been doing its trick for centuries. The trunk has bent itself almost flat to the ground and grown back up, twice in the same lifetime. There is no record of who first walked past it. There is no record of who is walking past it now.
Sits alongside The Overstory by Richard Powers, Underland by Robert Macfarlane, or any history of a place told through its trees.
The thing about an old tree is that it has been doing the same thing in the same place for longer than any of us has been doing anything. Wars happened around it. Roads were built. Families lived nearby and then stopped living nearby. The tree dropped leaves every autumn and grew new ones every spring and never told anyone how long it had been keeping count. Stand under it for ten minutes and the rest of the week starts to look brief.
