Billions of years, billions of trees.101Please respect copyright.PENANAlKCkN1VrJm
Dancing with delight.101Please respect copyright.PENANA36JsQbGBSO
Growing and growing, new life developing in place of old trees.101Please respect copyright.PENANAxEGsD3VU0g
Little green baby Newgrowth sprouts growing out of branches,101Please respect copyright.PENANAgeLMDLSqn0
delicate, fragile, one day they will be strong and sturdy.101Please respect copyright.PENANAzhRsD9S1Wb
Birds will perch on the branches while they watch the forest floor.101Please respect copyright.PENANAKYEsite5Xr
The miracle of life, of nature. 101Please respect copyright.PENANAAW4ZFvrOlC
In support of each other, 101Please respect copyright.PENANAXaemjGJdvL
for centuries now and centuries forevermore.
The human race. 101Please respect copyright.PENANArBj1b7JU9Q
Loud, aggressive, selfish.101Please respect copyright.PENANAQdqK60CTC5
Invasive.
The Trees of the Forests produce oxygen for the humans.101Please respect copyright.PENANAAV6UD9IoUs
Mother Earth's wishes.101Please respect copyright.PENANAXM0y0H57dG
The Trees of the Forests look after the humans. 101Please respect copyright.PENANAtTb0jAm3dx
Provide shelter from the rain and shelter from the sun.
Their poor sensitive skin, The Trees of the Forests think,101Please respect copyright.PENANAZQ7j2nUFEU
my, how it burns in the sun. Completely unlike us.
Civilizations erect tall buildings. Taller than trees. 101Please respect copyright.PENANA1ehu89QMFL
The humans, ignorant.101Please respect copyright.PENANA97b9x1t1ez
Unaware how the trees benefit them,101Please respect copyright.PENANA2fK1JUlVoi
unaware how the trees are necessary101Please respect copyright.PENANAuR5C2xi9nO
to survival.
They craft. They craft axes and saws101Please respect copyright.PENANA9JZhFlEuUp
nothing The Trees of the Forest had ever seen before.
Well, thought The Trees of the Forest, what clever creatures, very advanced, they are!101Please respect copyright.PENANAs09Xp2cQjL
I wonder what they'll do next!
And what they did do next. 101Please respect copyright.PENANAtqz3EEpOSx
They wield the axe above their heads101Please respect copyright.PENANAqFgCXxBiGP
and swing against the Trees.101Please respect copyright.PENANAIwvIf6PgRE
They swing and swing. 101Please respect copyright.PENANAaIOJrKuF2p
Wounding the Trees of the Forest, wounding them greatly. 101Please respect copyright.PENANAuaMXbtyKUO
No mercy did they show as they kept swinging and hitting the flesh of the Trees.
Unnatural! Unnatural! Why, how could they do this to us!?
Down,101Please respect copyright.PENANAouw90cK5GP
the tree falls. No longer a sacred Tree of the Forest.101Please respect copyright.PENANAYtmN0SgNYb
No longer producing sweet oxygen for the humans, no longer will the birds perch upon it's branches, no longer may the Newgrowth grow. For the selfishness of a human has taken away it's life,101Please respect copyright.PENANAKpYUVUhmtd
now it is merely a corpse of what it used to be. 101Please respect copyright.PENANAcTBtCkgVDW
Leafs that used to sit in the canopy, swaying in the wind and cleaning the air will go brown with death and wither away. 101Please respect copyright.PENANAlDTgBHLeap
What a tragedy.
The wood, the humans said, will make my home.101Please respect copyright.PENANA8qxJVKa7Qp
The Trees of the Forest grieved for the loss of one of their own. The animals that used to take refuge in the Fallen grieved for the loss of their safe haven.
Days later, another human. A different one than last time. 101Please respect copyright.PENANAu50r7gHghY
The wood, the human said, will make my home.101Please respect copyright.PENANAo2ub0TNTEd
And the loss of another was upon them101Please respect copyright.PENANAiISqDM2AJV
but for the humans, the birth of a town.
Was this an equal trade?
Time moved on and still the Fallen weren't replaced with Newgrowth. The Trees of the Forest still mourn. But the humans weren't finished. 101Please respect copyright.PENANAaXRkXmvTNP
The wood, the townfolk said, will make fire to warm the houses.101Please respect copyright.PENANAWRQa7xdphd
And just like last time, the Trees of the Forest lost another and the wildlife had to relocate again.
At least they will survive Winter.
Again and again, the humans would come to take another and turn them into Fallen. 101Please respect copyright.PENANADQ8SmRQlul
They'd mutilate the fallen and use every last piece for their own, 101Please respect copyright.PENANAOS21Buolg0
sparing none to the Forest.101Please respect copyright.PENANA4UbFeAo6xJ
The wood, the townfolk said, will make paper to teach the young.101Please respect copyright.PENANAKuYn21XEsG
At least their Newgrowth will be knowledgeable.
Hundreds of years pass, 101Please respect copyright.PENANARMJx0qPC2P
Newgrowth fights to stay alive. 101Please respect copyright.PENANAJH60jMyHSU
The humans, they work in moderation. 101Please respect copyright.PENANAddt0OtaSnM
The Winter affect the New Trees of the Forest the worst. 101Please respect copyright.PENANAh2P2dPHX9g
But year round they recover. 101Please respect copyright.PENANAcLXfsbPO5r
A happy ending!101Please respect copyright.PENANA096LNT6cHF
Almost.
Billionaire business owner's billion dollars pay for giant metal machinery with spinning bladed protruding from it's front. Threatening for all those who dare look at it's beady empty eyes.
The wood. the billionaire business owner demanded. Will make more money for me.
The Trees of the Forest sway in despair, oh this can't be this can't be! This is a nightmare! A nightmare we say! 101Please respect copyright.PENANAVNRYWCo0VE
No matter how hard they sway and shake, desperate to move out of the way, the billionaire business owner's giant metal machinery won't move, locked on target,101Please respect copyright.PENANAykznjc0jQx
steady and consistently paced, straight for the Trees of the Forest.
Down falls one and a silence falls over the Forest.101Please respect copyright.PENANAIzRtrFwj6n
Silence followed by loud whirring and a skittering and flapping from the fauna,101Please respect copyright.PENANAu6BMq3m8FP
hurriedly finding safety. Wails of the Trees fill the air but are drowned out by all the chaos.101Please respect copyright.PENANAyKA1ki6ADA
More and more Trees fall victim to the human's greed.101Please respect copyright.PENANA5F0P4b4WxG
More and more animals fall victim to the human's greed.
For what? Expansion? Leisure? Selfishness? Nothing all that important, really. 101Please respect copyright.PENANAW4FZhTFSkw
Why do they do it? The humans. Why do they bite at the hand that feeds them? Hurt their darling Mother in such ways? 101Please respect copyright.PENANAFXamJDyraP
Why must they act against her so? Do they live to die? 101Please respect copyright.PENANAjZ9Cojx30R
Ruining all she had done for everyone, disrupting the ecosystem, committing irreversible damage to their environment and not lifting even their pinky finger to fix it? Or take responsibility?
Forever the cries of the Trees will be drowned out by the human's indifference.
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