Billions of years, billions of trees.355Please respect copyright.PENANADRLBxz5dw5
Dancing with delight.355Please respect copyright.PENANASVwQk3JkIB
Growing and growing, new life developing in place of old trees.355Please respect copyright.PENANApL6SAk5aGf
Little green baby Newgrowth sprouts growing out of branches,355Please respect copyright.PENANABX5mrRNsIX
delicate, fragile, one day they will be strong and sturdy.355Please respect copyright.PENANAM83MlMSruB
Birds will perch on the branches while they watch the forest floor.355Please respect copyright.PENANAAYwzDH33xc
The miracle of life, of nature. 355Please respect copyright.PENANANBrNIACiVN
In support of each other, 355Please respect copyright.PENANAeFBx9fFd3g
for centuries now and centuries forevermore.
The human race. 355Please respect copyright.PENANAJyIH4lEIeG
Loud, aggressive, selfish.355Please respect copyright.PENANA2eHRnBoC5r
Invasive.
The Trees of the Forests produce oxygen for the humans.355Please respect copyright.PENANAQyRgFQUypT
Mother Earth's wishes.355Please respect copyright.PENANAqdbsodSTVg
The Trees of the Forests look after the humans. 355Please respect copyright.PENANANp4mEG5PIE
Provide shelter from the rain and shelter from the sun.
Their poor sensitive skin, The Trees of the Forests think,355Please respect copyright.PENANAia8jJs8Jvb
my, how it burns in the sun. Completely unlike us.
Civilizations erect tall buildings. Taller than trees. 355Please respect copyright.PENANAgh8BP4nB0n
The humans, ignorant.355Please respect copyright.PENANA6xWYp6VvqX
Unaware how the trees benefit them,355Please respect copyright.PENANA3y8zQZKqEl
unaware how the trees are necessary355Please respect copyright.PENANAercdRrqOIC
to survival.
They craft. They craft axes and saws355Please respect copyright.PENANAj7n1WknsXp
nothing The Trees of the Forest had ever seen before.
Well, thought The Trees of the Forest, what clever creatures, very advanced, they are!355Please respect copyright.PENANA1OZBfRnO1o
I wonder what they'll do next!
And what they did do next. 355Please respect copyright.PENANATbNM5UGrnO
They wield the axe above their heads355Please respect copyright.PENANABqmgsZ9u0Q
and swing against the Trees.355Please respect copyright.PENANAkLxEILI6Uh
They swing and swing. 355Please respect copyright.PENANAI9PxwDOeIr
Wounding the Trees of the Forest, wounding them greatly. 355Please respect copyright.PENANA2Go4bS9rPS
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,355Please respect copyright.PENANAuPAsIejhG1
the tree falls. No longer a sacred Tree of the Forest.355Please respect copyright.PENANAnehgeXhbsq
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,355Please respect copyright.PENANAacZp9zrB8m
now it is merely a corpse of what it used to be. 355Please respect copyright.PENANAT6K2HrIEfZ
Leafs that used to sit in the canopy, swaying in the wind and cleaning the air will go brown with death and wither away. 355Please respect copyright.PENANA0rg1RhazWM
What a tragedy.
The wood, the humans said, will make my home.355Please respect copyright.PENANAzGChQ8J4JE
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. 355Please respect copyright.PENANAmglGFb5QED
The wood, the human said, will make my home.355Please respect copyright.PENANAqqbyHKTtT8
And the loss of another was upon them355Please respect copyright.PENANAhcdnglGjBG
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. 355Please respect copyright.PENANAGNIrMC9rAs
The wood, the townfolk said, will make fire to warm the houses.355Please respect copyright.PENANAHbPVXg6Gbq
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. 355Please respect copyright.PENANA6l4U3vJJKD
They'd mutilate the fallen and use every last piece for their own, 355Please respect copyright.PENANA9TfoDQ6AOK
sparing none to the Forest.355Please respect copyright.PENANAMzAF0x1qe3
The wood, the townfolk said, will make paper to teach the young.355Please respect copyright.PENANA8PmFCUKDU0
At least their Newgrowth will be knowledgeable.
Hundreds of years pass, 355Please respect copyright.PENANAob8zEX9joo
Newgrowth fights to stay alive. 355Please respect copyright.PENANAwXg78SLqBn
The humans, they work in moderation. 355Please respect copyright.PENANA2T22sAQbZl
The Winter affect the New Trees of the Forest the worst. 355Please respect copyright.PENANAohnTDCtp0G
But year round they recover. 355Please respect copyright.PENANASkzQqT0urF
A happy ending!355Please respect copyright.PENANAhkZZ2y9wX7
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! 355Please respect copyright.PENANAIwqELwJEV1
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,355Please respect copyright.PENANALy9YcQ3lMR
steady and consistently paced, straight for the Trees of the Forest.
Down falls one and a silence falls over the Forest.355Please respect copyright.PENANAokcMCXx4dm
Silence followed by loud whirring and a skittering and flapping from the fauna,355Please respect copyright.PENANAcxJjcgKf3w
hurriedly finding safety. Wails of the Trees fill the air but are drowned out by all the chaos.355Please respect copyright.PENANALb392OW0Mk
More and more Trees fall victim to the human's greed.355Please respect copyright.PENANAKXx92sreBu
More and more animals fall victim to the human's greed.
For what? Expansion? Leisure? Selfishness? Nothing all that important, really. 355Please respect copyright.PENANAorJbBFTUxK
Why do they do it? The humans. Why do they bite at the hand that feeds them? Hurt their darling Mother in such ways? 355Please respect copyright.PENANAPyug9pVdbU
Why must they act against her so? Do they live to die? 355Please respect copyright.PENANAa5lGTuFTmB
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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