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Article: A day in the life of General Sherman: our intrepid reporter gets up close and personal with this long-time champ and perennial favorite big tree.(Travel narrative)
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- American Forests
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- March 22, 2008
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Big trees. You can measure them, pore over their statistics; compare their age to human history; draw, paint, photograph or rhapsodize about them; or stand under them and gawk. You can be stunned into awed silence or jolted into shouts of animated amazement. But if you are like most other visitors to a national champion tree, you will leave within a few minutes, an hour at most.
These are all valid ways to appreciate big trees, as is learning about them through pictures, prose, or word of mouth. But our human way of life, especially the modern American variety, places a dark filter over our perceptions of the life of a big tree. They say it takes one to know one ...