Trees are quite a spectacular part of our ecosystem, and generally as a plant they have a great purpose and seem to be as under attack as much as the rest of nature. In my previous article about Trees, I mention just a few of the different types, two of which I have seen myself, the Banyan and the Baobab trees. But there is another I have also seen in person I realise I failed to mention, and that is the Giant Sequioa Forest in California. It really is a sight to behold, and makes you feel very tiny, although I was a child, so was pretty small at the time anyway, but they were epic.

There is talk though, of there being a time when things were much bigger, of Giants and megafauna and flora. Some of which has evidence showing it was once here or is available if you go looking, and some has been lost or is hidden if perhaps it raises what might be seen as ‘too many questions’. But occasionally there is something there to debate, or dismiss, depending on your viewpoint and reasoning. Devils Tower in Wyoming is a good example of this, where many people say it is evidence of a giant tree, and that is the remaining stump showing having been fossilised. Another theory is that it’s veins of what was once a living creature or animal or giant. And what the accepted theory says, is that it is natural rock formations from volcanic and tectonic activity around 40 million years ago. Either way, it looks a bit out of place on the landscape and sticks out enough to be a point of discussion. And whether it is remnants of a giant tree, creature or just volcanic, it shouldn’t dismiss from the idea that there was a time before of much larger things.

But it’s not just trees, or possible bones that people hold up as a reason for questioning. It’s the large buildings, doorways, measurements in travellers’ tales and old stories generally that seem literally riddled with ideas and mention of things we are taught to scoff at today. They say things get bigger with a higher cO2 level, so could it be that when it was warmer and greener, things were able to reach what we might call, their full potential? And currently we are perhaps in a stunted phase, and still in the ice-age in reality, or a cold period which keeps everything down. I have a few wonderings on what might have occurred in the past to keep things like that hidden, or not even hidden, just not taught, so they fade as common knowledge and become only for the few. To then wield or withhold later when needed, or perhaps they too forget and much gets lost altogether, with no-one to understand what they are looking at anymore they just ignore it or destroy it, and then time serves to bury it. As it will with all of us one day, but until that day the questions continue…

(c) K Wicks