Billions of years, billions of trees.100Please respect copyright.PENANAMEHbOohUma
Dancing with delight.100Please respect copyright.PENANA7MkVgEf7a9
Growing and growing, new life developing in place of old trees.100Please respect copyright.PENANAruUGXa2sAd
Little green baby Newgrowth sprouts growing out of branches,100Please respect copyright.PENANAhFt2hlhukW
delicate, fragile, one day they will be strong and sturdy.100Please respect copyright.PENANA0oftV8VXLi
Birds will perch on the branches while they watch the forest floor.100Please respect copyright.PENANAWNt3AA6DbB
The miracle of life, of nature. 100Please respect copyright.PENANAFCQ3JY7zJ6
In support of each other, 100Please respect copyright.PENANA6WjrwTnQWw
for centuries now and centuries forevermore.
The human race. 100Please respect copyright.PENANAWuyrHXRUHs
Loud, aggressive, selfish.100Please respect copyright.PENANAf4pvf4iKdf
Invasive.
The Trees of the Forests produce oxygen for the humans.100Please respect copyright.PENANApf2xSR9KHe
Mother Earth's wishes.100Please respect copyright.PENANATbOztYMACu
The Trees of the Forests look after the humans. 100Please respect copyright.PENANAIhMVmK0XON
Provide shelter from the rain and shelter from the sun.
Their poor sensitive skin, The Trees of the Forests think,100Please respect copyright.PENANAPqQbZjZOEn
my, how it burns in the sun. Completely unlike us.
Civilizations erect tall buildings. Taller than trees. 100Please respect copyright.PENANAwZs9UvQPnF
The humans, ignorant.100Please respect copyright.PENANA8rhq4fPXQJ
Unaware how the trees benefit them,100Please respect copyright.PENANAwdmiiGeg4D
unaware how the trees are necessary100Please respect copyright.PENANAzypw0u0ldD
to survival.
They craft. They craft axes and saws100Please respect copyright.PENANAxiu3JLAEqu
nothing The Trees of the Forest had ever seen before.
Well, thought The Trees of the Forest, what clever creatures, very advanced, they are!100Please respect copyright.PENANANPSNQqZ94r
I wonder what they'll do next!
And what they did do next. 100Please respect copyright.PENANAG08WtR07ye
They wield the axe above their heads100Please respect copyright.PENANAI5gtYHnQrf
and swing against the Trees.100Please respect copyright.PENANAuJG2SV3Va2
They swing and swing. 100Please respect copyright.PENANAjgcfDfXuGC
Wounding the Trees of the Forest, wounding them greatly. 100Please respect copyright.PENANAoeRudKKYqf
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,100Please respect copyright.PENANANTUbXde7IF
the tree falls. No longer a sacred Tree of the Forest.100Please respect copyright.PENANAhQ9Q55BJQR
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,100Please respect copyright.PENANAYFS0nF6CYI
now it is merely a corpse of what it used to be. 100Please respect copyright.PENANAuXDTRGSTSW
Leafs that used to sit in the canopy, swaying in the wind and cleaning the air will go brown with death and wither away. 100Please respect copyright.PENANA6LqAthBxLC
What a tragedy.
The wood, the humans said, will make my home.100Please respect copyright.PENANAJs8CdfYdaA
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. 100Please respect copyright.PENANAbeFDtm3283
The wood, the human said, will make my home.100Please respect copyright.PENANAfit6qNsuUC
And the loss of another was upon them100Please respect copyright.PENANAS6Iz2MVg1Q
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. 100Please respect copyright.PENANAuOkvC5HCU9
The wood, the townfolk said, will make fire to warm the houses.100Please respect copyright.PENANAUOssT7aD1C
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. 100Please respect copyright.PENANApMV7ZHOHKo
They'd mutilate the fallen and use every last piece for their own, 100Please respect copyright.PENANAckxEVdOhbM
sparing none to the Forest.100Please respect copyright.PENANAPYyIHELsQh
The wood, the townfolk said, will make paper to teach the young.100Please respect copyright.PENANAqHRRhJGcCq
At least their Newgrowth will be knowledgeable.
Hundreds of years pass, 100Please respect copyright.PENANAULgYctCX77
Newgrowth fights to stay alive. 100Please respect copyright.PENANArUBKqlBQLE
The humans, they work in moderation. 100Please respect copyright.PENANAIfUQFyqDuu
The Winter affect the New Trees of the Forest the worst. 100Please respect copyright.PENANAHV8BAKRJKG
But year round they recover. 100Please respect copyright.PENANAIwt6ZQyHc8
A happy ending!100Please respect copyright.PENANAtkoqw6Li6b
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! 100Please respect copyright.PENANAi3Niknvl77
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,100Please respect copyright.PENANA2acwslA3VJ
steady and consistently paced, straight for the Trees of the Forest.
Down falls one and a silence falls over the Forest.100Please respect copyright.PENANAANkAsj8Bhi
Silence followed by loud whirring and a skittering and flapping from the fauna,100Please respect copyright.PENANAXjV0Uu8dXZ
hurriedly finding safety. Wails of the Trees fill the air but are drowned out by all the chaos.100Please respect copyright.PENANAbbBpOWHRCz
More and more Trees fall victim to the human's greed.100Please respect copyright.PENANAZZM8emnH3x
More and more animals fall victim to the human's greed.
For what? Expansion? Leisure? Selfishness? Nothing all that important, really. 100Please respect copyright.PENANAmYgWaUOIev
Why do they do it? The humans. Why do they bite at the hand that feeds them? Hurt their darling Mother in such ways? 100Please respect copyright.PENANAxVdUmJQd6X
Why must they act against her so? Do they live to die? 100Please respect copyright.PENANAOAPPCjE6YF
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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