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| | Amazon.com: Books: Ancient Trees: Trees That Live For 1,000 Years (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) |
 | | Trees from all around the world are represented: redwood, bristlecone pine, Brazil nut, yew, oak, lime, olive, baobab, fig, cedar, ginkgo, and others. |
 | | Other chapters are devoted to fig trees, mighty oaks, sweet chestnuts, limes, olives, yews, cedar, gingko, the Montezuma Cypress, and of course the Bristlecone Pine, the oldest tree of all with one specimen, the Methuselah tree, said to be over 4,700 years old. |
 | | The attempt to wed the trees to the ancient myths of indigenous peoples or to fix the "religious significance" of the trees has its place, but is takes up too much of the text here. |
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