Imagine a large tree. Now imagine a much larger tree. That is how the giant sequoia do. No, let’s try this again. Imagine a large tree. Now imagine this tree as a branch, not a tree, attached to another much larger tree. Now imagine that much larger tree. That is how the giant sequoia do. Three decades ago, a branch fell off one of the largest giant sequoia. It was 43m long. Last try: imagine a boy. He grew up in the desert, is 4 years old, has never seen a tree, but was once told how a tree looks…
The Science Creative Quarterly
By Eiko Fried
Eiko Fried holds a PhD in psychology that he finished in 2014, and now works as a post-doc somewhere between clinical psychology and complex systems at the University of Leuven in Belgium. In September 2015, amidst a number of conferences in the US, he risked vacation and chanced upon the amazing Sequoia Trees.