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  1. Richard Preston _ The Wild Trees: A Story of

    As for the trees themselves, water that flows into a giant redwood through its roots takes two weeks or longer to reach the top of the tree, moving slowly upward through the tree's sapwood.
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  2. Richard Preston _ The Wild Trees: A Story of

    A zoologist at Humboldt State, Michael A. Camann, climbed in the Atlas Grove and took samples of the fern mats and discovered that they are also sprinkled with tiny aquatic creatures, crustaceans of an unnamed species of copepod. Copepods are oval-shaped, shrimp-like creatures, barely visible to the naked eye, that are sometimes called the insects of the ocean.
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  3. Richard Preston _ The Wild Trees: A Story of

    Botanists have a tradition of never revealing the exact location of a rare plant. Contact between humans and rare plants is generally risky for the plants. Many of the giant trees I describe in this book, as well as the groves they inhabit, have only recently been discovered, and in some cases have been seen by fewer than a dozen people, including myself. To honor the tradition of botany, I won't reveal the exact locations of giant trees or groves if these locations have not been previously published. If a tree's location has been published, or if the tree is no longer alive, then I will give its location.
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  4. Richard Preston _ The Wild Trees: A Story of

    Time has a different quality in a forest, a different kind of flow. Time moves in circles, and events are linked, even if it's not obvious that they are linked. Events in a forest occur with precision in the flow of tree time, like the motions of an endless dance. {p. 12}
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