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slolwayesni t1_j6d48pj wrote

I love this tree! It's like the tree was lonely and lowered part of itself to earth so that people could sit on it, touch it, interact with it.

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BarryZZZ t1_j6dkbrt wrote

The tree survived all this time for being "useless." The coastal live oaks that grew with straight sturdy trunks and long horizontal branches were all felled and hauled off by British Shipwrights. All of the truly ancient live oaks share this "uselessness."

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atomfullerene t1_j6ebyhz wrote

I guess you didn't see all the signs about not touching it, heh

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AniseClover t1_j6fgl0l wrote

They don’t let you sit on it anymore??

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atomfullerene t1_j6fi9id wrote

Hah, no they've never let you do that all the times I've been there. They used to?

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AniseClover t1_j6figzq wrote

I remember when I was a kid they didn’t care, my and my cousin have pics from way back when our granny took of us sitting on the branches.

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O_vJust t1_j6h1x5y wrote

They don’t anymore. I guess you could if you still wanted I guess.. No one really stopping you. They are just trying to protect it. There are a few cables holding certain branches up.

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