Billions of years, billions of trees.112Please respect copyright.PENANAaS2h8i5u29
Dancing with delight.112Please respect copyright.PENANAEO5Q1IcLyW
Growing and growing, new life developing in place of old trees.112Please respect copyright.PENANAltjM0c8sKI
Little green baby Newgrowth sprouts growing out of branches,112Please respect copyright.PENANAkzaGzuMEbi
delicate, fragile, one day they will be strong and sturdy.112Please respect copyright.PENANAppLwoKIhik
Birds will perch on the branches while they watch the forest floor.112Please respect copyright.PENANA5L6NQpwINc
The miracle of life, of nature. 112Please respect copyright.PENANAISBFivgtNl
In support of each other, 112Please respect copyright.PENANAbGbNMItPs7
for centuries now and centuries forevermore.
The human race. 112Please respect copyright.PENANATEPIhGTOkh
Loud, aggressive, selfish.112Please respect copyright.PENANA6cCsOgiEXO
Invasive.
The Trees of the Forests produce oxygen for the humans.112Please respect copyright.PENANAMGfhE9mIJW
Mother Earth's wishes.112Please respect copyright.PENANAsC5MUv5fh0
The Trees of the Forests look after the humans. 112Please respect copyright.PENANAzth5ZhWQIX
Provide shelter from the rain and shelter from the sun.
Their poor sensitive skin, The Trees of the Forests think,112Please respect copyright.PENANAUMKgr1iKwT
my, how it burns in the sun. Completely unlike us.
Civilizations erect tall buildings. Taller than trees. 112Please respect copyright.PENANA3me20b225N
The humans, ignorant.112Please respect copyright.PENANAOUWtoIcoqo
Unaware how the trees benefit them,112Please respect copyright.PENANAvAoKBMbsQN
unaware how the trees are necessary112Please respect copyright.PENANAUlyrlE9bHs
to survival.
They craft. They craft axes and saws112Please respect copyright.PENANAuXebv2zQyl
nothing The Trees of the Forest had ever seen before.
Well, thought The Trees of the Forest, what clever creatures, very advanced, they are!112Please respect copyright.PENANA01O4DVxjks
I wonder what they'll do next!
And what they did do next. 112Please respect copyright.PENANA5J4KAaZFW1
They wield the axe above their heads112Please respect copyright.PENANAa837itQp5I
and swing against the Trees.112Please respect copyright.PENANAMsQIWZrJxA
They swing and swing. 112Please respect copyright.PENANAKDWbx0CCKZ
Wounding the Trees of the Forest, wounding them greatly. 112Please respect copyright.PENANACTkCN9zw7G
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,112Please respect copyright.PENANAX7lo2l9HhB
the tree falls. No longer a sacred Tree of the Forest.112Please respect copyright.PENANAluhdxYKk61
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,112Please respect copyright.PENANAbamMeWYKxL
now it is merely a corpse of what it used to be. 112Please respect copyright.PENANA6tiRD72H7H
Leafs that used to sit in the canopy, swaying in the wind and cleaning the air will go brown with death and wither away. 112Please respect copyright.PENANAiwzYSkV2E8
What a tragedy.
The wood, the humans said, will make my home.112Please respect copyright.PENANAYOZX6ewLfy
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. 112Please respect copyright.PENANAvj8BodU9wk
The wood, the human said, will make my home.112Please respect copyright.PENANAZqBd1mxTmX
And the loss of another was upon them112Please respect copyright.PENANAP3ZBINX4kp
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. 112Please respect copyright.PENANAs2hnfhoQxS
The wood, the townfolk said, will make fire to warm the houses.112Please respect copyright.PENANAEYSgBVVjK4
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. 112Please respect copyright.PENANAOvjsShdvxR
They'd mutilate the fallen and use every last piece for their own, 112Please respect copyright.PENANAk4LUPTMdr4
sparing none to the Forest.112Please respect copyright.PENANAfiFxyBuptW
The wood, the townfolk said, will make paper to teach the young.112Please respect copyright.PENANANdHpvIdywe
At least their Newgrowth will be knowledgeable.
Hundreds of years pass, 112Please respect copyright.PENANAZRvHRB6V4p
Newgrowth fights to stay alive. 112Please respect copyright.PENANAGxq6leNEU5
The humans, they work in moderation. 112Please respect copyright.PENANAwqYlKnKwjg
The Winter affect the New Trees of the Forest the worst. 112Please respect copyright.PENANAzLrw34q6X0
But year round they recover. 112Please respect copyright.PENANA4GEQELXuM6
A happy ending!112Please respect copyright.PENANA9Db1YSJsUP
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! 112Please respect copyright.PENANAvgJbITM7mg
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,112Please respect copyright.PENANAOuYq0gjMy6
steady and consistently paced, straight for the Trees of the Forest.
Down falls one and a silence falls over the Forest.112Please respect copyright.PENANAHtE6DFQ2xN
Silence followed by loud whirring and a skittering and flapping from the fauna,112Please respect copyright.PENANAyLy08xIU1u
hurriedly finding safety. Wails of the Trees fill the air but are drowned out by all the chaos.112Please respect copyright.PENANA98MmgQ955y
More and more Trees fall victim to the human's greed.112Please respect copyright.PENANAd0NN1A2sV5
More and more animals fall victim to the human's greed.
For what? Expansion? Leisure? Selfishness? Nothing all that important, really. 112Please respect copyright.PENANAnTAwiDE9mz
Why do they do it? The humans. Why do they bite at the hand that feeds them? Hurt their darling Mother in such ways? 112Please respect copyright.PENANA8N1Vkn9aex
Why must they act against her so? Do they live to die? 112Please respect copyright.PENANAVSi4n6DQlN
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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