Billions of years, billions of trees.110Please respect copyright.PENANADef05P1zfb
Dancing with delight.110Please respect copyright.PENANAf6sqsUHdTY
Growing and growing, new life developing in place of old trees.110Please respect copyright.PENANAQJ31z0BItb
Little green baby Newgrowth sprouts growing out of branches,110Please respect copyright.PENANAsRdEpa71UP
delicate, fragile, one day they will be strong and sturdy.110Please respect copyright.PENANAURAcqKZd1v
Birds will perch on the branches while they watch the forest floor.110Please respect copyright.PENANAaV07d7ZH08
The miracle of life, of nature. 110Please respect copyright.PENANAT1IrVdMqAX
In support of each other, 110Please respect copyright.PENANA5gvuwOcTyO
for centuries now and centuries forevermore.
The human race. 110Please respect copyright.PENANAVMpavj3S0S
Loud, aggressive, selfish.110Please respect copyright.PENANAUGAD1PGqC0
Invasive.
The Trees of the Forests produce oxygen for the humans.110Please respect copyright.PENANAhwAj7d4jmH
Mother Earth's wishes.110Please respect copyright.PENANAMX2eAPTXGi
The Trees of the Forests look after the humans. 110Please respect copyright.PENANAQjEurZbMWH
Provide shelter from the rain and shelter from the sun.
Their poor sensitive skin, The Trees of the Forests think,110Please respect copyright.PENANAlM2IUJLU6h
my, how it burns in the sun. Completely unlike us.
Civilizations erect tall buildings. Taller than trees. 110Please respect copyright.PENANAoqt9V5wFuJ
The humans, ignorant.110Please respect copyright.PENANA6O2wcO6dG2
Unaware how the trees benefit them,110Please respect copyright.PENANAh1rR5MN953
unaware how the trees are necessary110Please respect copyright.PENANA5t8mNnh0XZ
to survival.
They craft. They craft axes and saws110Please respect copyright.PENANAnEperWYL8l
nothing The Trees of the Forest had ever seen before.
Well, thought The Trees of the Forest, what clever creatures, very advanced, they are!110Please respect copyright.PENANA9fGu2zuV5n
I wonder what they'll do next!
And what they did do next. 110Please respect copyright.PENANA7QUqLJIeHd
They wield the axe above their heads110Please respect copyright.PENANAdSJyXV5QaI
and swing against the Trees.110Please respect copyright.PENANAt9TlKCsGdq
They swing and swing. 110Please respect copyright.PENANA0MfN5UvT7Y
Wounding the Trees of the Forest, wounding them greatly. 110Please respect copyright.PENANAEsrho23tXE
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,110Please respect copyright.PENANAT3v7wLLtFa
the tree falls. No longer a sacred Tree of the Forest.110Please respect copyright.PENANAoms2q7a8tl
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,110Please respect copyright.PENANA5ixjAyLdrL
now it is merely a corpse of what it used to be. 110Please respect copyright.PENANA7IjewEr1af
Leafs that used to sit in the canopy, swaying in the wind and cleaning the air will go brown with death and wither away. 110Please respect copyright.PENANAfXtSpdn7Eo
What a tragedy.
The wood, the humans said, will make my home.110Please respect copyright.PENANAAfDRLuWc4G
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. 110Please respect copyright.PENANAJr9FuXfGOp
The wood, the human said, will make my home.110Please respect copyright.PENANAmYLB8XaxZu
And the loss of another was upon them110Please respect copyright.PENANAGdR9LPmj1w
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. 110Please respect copyright.PENANAzcZNyxVStX
The wood, the townfolk said, will make fire to warm the houses.110Please respect copyright.PENANAdMJU4s5sSO
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. 110Please respect copyright.PENANAgpbCFntlZy
They'd mutilate the fallen and use every last piece for their own, 110Please respect copyright.PENANAFrQHEew3xo
sparing none to the Forest.110Please respect copyright.PENANAaSi8AGsvGU
The wood, the townfolk said, will make paper to teach the young.110Please respect copyright.PENANAFV3BXVXGo1
At least their Newgrowth will be knowledgeable.
Hundreds of years pass, 110Please respect copyright.PENANAQQFKyFvHap
Newgrowth fights to stay alive. 110Please respect copyright.PENANAJvAsPKYQjz
The humans, they work in moderation. 110Please respect copyright.PENANA5W3MR7rPU3
The Winter affect the New Trees of the Forest the worst. 110Please respect copyright.PENANAq3vxGvlT33
But year round they recover. 110Please respect copyright.PENANAMe0UMpouFX
A happy ending!110Please respect copyright.PENANAiMoMiokvE3
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! 110Please respect copyright.PENANAiWr71HpFmF
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,110Please respect copyright.PENANAa2n69feVWN
steady and consistently paced, straight for the Trees of the Forest.
Down falls one and a silence falls over the Forest.110Please respect copyright.PENANA3ayQnllpKV
Silence followed by loud whirring and a skittering and flapping from the fauna,110Please respect copyright.PENANA2ETgZuDfvF
hurriedly finding safety. Wails of the Trees fill the air but are drowned out by all the chaos.110Please respect copyright.PENANAraWRraTAEg
More and more Trees fall victim to the human's greed.110Please respect copyright.PENANAyM5A8puwi0
More and more animals fall victim to the human's greed.
For what? Expansion? Leisure? Selfishness? Nothing all that important, really. 110Please respect copyright.PENANAtcmKKAMqS8
Why do they do it? The humans. Why do they bite at the hand that feeds them? Hurt their darling Mother in such ways? 110Please respect copyright.PENANAgGKRTVIoSn
Why must they act against her so? Do they live to die? 110Please respect copyright.PENANA8Ku6VauLYJ
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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