Stand Like a Tree

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" Even if I knew
 that tomorrow
 the world would 
go to pieces,
 I would still 
plant my apple tree. "

Martin Luther

" All theory, dear friend, 

is gray, 

but the 

golden tree of life 

springs ever green. "

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

" Except during

 the nine months 

before he draws 

his first breath, 

no man 

manages his affairs

 as well as 

a tree does. "

George Bernard Shaw

" But though 

to the outer ear 

these trees are 

now silent, 

their songs never 

cease. "

John Muir

Banana "Trees" aren't. They are giant grasses!

" I looked up my family tree 

and found out 

I was the sap. "

Rodney Dangerfield

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Often,
what we THINK we know
is wrong.

Conventional wisdom holds
that aging
causes less productivity.

But a recent study
of old growth trees
has turned 
such assumptions
upside down.

 Scientists from 16 nations 

studied 673,046 individual trees  

of over 400 species 

on six continents finding:

   
As they get older and bigger

trees actually 

accelerate their growth!

"This finding contradicts 

the usual assumption 

that tree growth eventually declines 

as trees get older and bigger,

It also means that big, old trees 

are better

 at absorbing carbon 

from the atmosphere

 than has been 

commonly assumed.

"In human terms,

 it is as if our growth 

just keeps accelerating 

after adolescence, 

instead of slowing down. 

By that measure, 

humans could weigh 

half a ton by middle age,

 and well over a ton

 at retirement." 

 Nate Stephenson, 

lead author, forest ecologist 

US Geological Survey (USGS)

 Link

I know

that I am more able

than ever,

not perhaps

in weight lifting

or partying all night

but in living life

wisely, well

and contributing

to it.

Like You!

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