Billions of years, billions of trees.95Please respect copyright.PENANAcbV3sgz9q2
Dancing with delight.95Please respect copyright.PENANAbaYM7u9Ac5
Growing and growing, new life developing in place of old trees.95Please respect copyright.PENANA0Yo7OMLhHe
Little green baby Newgrowth sprouts growing out of branches,95Please respect copyright.PENANAFAOmeQM5Ye
delicate, fragile, one day they will be strong and sturdy.95Please respect copyright.PENANAqRq84EQfFH
Birds will perch on the branches while they watch the forest floor.95Please respect copyright.PENANAYx5RJfQNeL
The miracle of life, of nature. 95Please respect copyright.PENANAGoDBAwBZ4U
In support of each other, 95Please respect copyright.PENANA1EI7qdWUxr
for centuries now and centuries forevermore.
The human race. 95Please respect copyright.PENANAuqYnBI2Ta4
Loud, aggressive, selfish.95Please respect copyright.PENANABqNMir41cY
Invasive.
The Trees of the Forests produce oxygen for the humans.95Please respect copyright.PENANAg3Bn6rUsla
Mother Earth's wishes.95Please respect copyright.PENANAXFsEZ0KX9K
The Trees of the Forests look after the humans. 95Please respect copyright.PENANAjKBEfFXX4L
Provide shelter from the rain and shelter from the sun.
Their poor sensitive skin, The Trees of the Forests think,95Please respect copyright.PENANAu7BRnnkUGW
my, how it burns in the sun. Completely unlike us.
Civilizations erect tall buildings. Taller than trees. 95Please respect copyright.PENANAK08r27AEgI
The humans, ignorant.95Please respect copyright.PENANApHVpjk2uhE
Unaware how the trees benefit them,95Please respect copyright.PENANA2VG5ebiQTw
unaware how the trees are necessary95Please respect copyright.PENANA3MPXYeyYFp
to survival.
They craft. They craft axes and saws95Please respect copyright.PENANAEMXYJF3OWg
nothing The Trees of the Forest had ever seen before.
Well, thought The Trees of the Forest, what clever creatures, very advanced, they are!95Please respect copyright.PENANAklvfrNpEJd
I wonder what they'll do next!
And what they did do next. 95Please respect copyright.PENANAmITaA3vlDf
They wield the axe above their heads95Please respect copyright.PENANA6iQyNvtRWa
and swing against the Trees.95Please respect copyright.PENANAHY3S5iSef9
They swing and swing. 95Please respect copyright.PENANAdPBDD3L3Cu
Wounding the Trees of the Forest, wounding them greatly. 95Please respect copyright.PENANAK7u1q1CHim
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,95Please respect copyright.PENANAWxGacZGJc8
the tree falls. No longer a sacred Tree of the Forest.95Please respect copyright.PENANAfw3k6b7sId
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,95Please respect copyright.PENANAYnwGdHehRz
now it is merely a corpse of what it used to be. 95Please respect copyright.PENANAshgdBHFEhP
Leafs that used to sit in the canopy, swaying in the wind and cleaning the air will go brown with death and wither away. 95Please respect copyright.PENANA1aCJhGS1CV
What a tragedy.
The wood, the humans said, will make my home.95Please respect copyright.PENANAcdaFQV7unx
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. 95Please respect copyright.PENANAScXrUiugV3
The wood, the human said, will make my home.95Please respect copyright.PENANAq4Lnnb8Vp9
And the loss of another was upon them95Please respect copyright.PENANAEj8x0dw2AS
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. 95Please respect copyright.PENANA8vGZZEfweI
The wood, the townfolk said, will make fire to warm the houses.95Please respect copyright.PENANAswBumdIYid
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. 95Please respect copyright.PENANAYmJqe2Z5bN
They'd mutilate the fallen and use every last piece for their own, 95Please respect copyright.PENANADwZf2oe8bq
sparing none to the Forest.95Please respect copyright.PENANAPq4baaKbKc
The wood, the townfolk said, will make paper to teach the young.95Please respect copyright.PENANAGtJO3dW96c
At least their Newgrowth will be knowledgeable.
Hundreds of years pass, 95Please respect copyright.PENANAxu0tRd6Nor
Newgrowth fights to stay alive. 95Please respect copyright.PENANAXKmAYTdf9o
The humans, they work in moderation. 95Please respect copyright.PENANAlu4dqAd5K0
The Winter affect the New Trees of the Forest the worst. 95Please respect copyright.PENANAgmbJy7cnfp
But year round they recover. 95Please respect copyright.PENANApOEysv9Ve7
A happy ending!95Please respect copyright.PENANAi6PyyttJ2A
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! 95Please respect copyright.PENANAD1hau6NehQ
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,95Please respect copyright.PENANAbsN88Lc819
steady and consistently paced, straight for the Trees of the Forest.
Down falls one and a silence falls over the Forest.95Please respect copyright.PENANA1W0LNmlEsM
Silence followed by loud whirring and a skittering and flapping from the fauna,95Please respect copyright.PENANAyLP4g1j9ss
hurriedly finding safety. Wails of the Trees fill the air but are drowned out by all the chaos.95Please respect copyright.PENANA7SMZCTfY5P
More and more Trees fall victim to the human's greed.95Please respect copyright.PENANAtoecvG5ARe
More and more animals fall victim to the human's greed.
For what? Expansion? Leisure? Selfishness? Nothing all that important, really. 95Please respect copyright.PENANA5h0UzeiPes
Why do they do it? The humans. Why do they bite at the hand that feeds them? Hurt their darling Mother in such ways? 95Please respect copyright.PENANAhMVw77en8C
Why must they act against her so? Do they live to die? 95Please respect copyright.PENANA76ORwBiwKw
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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