Sequoia have endured floods, fires, winds, and snow in a life cycle that exceeds 3000 years. In the last 100 years man has nearly eliminated all such trees in an act of defiance over nature, boasting that such monuments to the past were simply resources to be used for man's "progress". Today only a handful remain in National Parks, protected from mankind by men with a different appreciation of their value.

Where will mankind be when the young seedlings from these Giant Seqouia are grown to adulthood? Will decendants to come have the opportunity to touch this primal place and contemplate the worlds within? Will these great trees remain long after mankind has come and gone. Will they reflect back on when mankind walked the earth for that brief period between the glacial ages? What value must we ultimately find in ourselves to be protected from our own "progress"?

“Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson