Oldest and Biggest Trees in the World - Baobab, Redwood and Bristlecone Pine

Oldest and Biggest Trees in the World

- Baobab, Redwood and Bristlecone Pine

Researched by Dr Abe V Rotor

Few trees live in isolation. One of them is the baobab (Adansonia digitata) found in South Africa claimed to be 6000 years old (1000 years at least by Carbon dating). In The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint- Exupery, the baobab is feared because it could destroy the small planet of the little prince. The tree was also featured as movie background of The Gods Must be Crazy.

Sequoioideae, popularly known as redwoods, is a subfamily of coniferous trees within the family Cupressaceae. It includes the largest and tallest trees in the world.

Remains of a once towering redwood, one of the tallest and oldest trees in the world. It is believed it was already bearing cones at the time of Christ.

Standing redwood trees showing massive trunks

The General Sherman, a California giant sequoia, is the largest

 in the world at 52,508 cubic feet (1,487 cubic meters). Internet

 The Great Basin Bristlecone Pine (Pinus longaeva) has been deemed the oldest tree in existence, reaching an age of over 5,000 years old. The bristlecone pine's success in living a long life can be attributed to its ability to adapt with the harsh conditions it lives in. Internet

 

Redwood bonsai; redwood seedling. ~

Do Fish Ever Sleep?

Do Fish Ever Sleep?

Dr Abe V Rotor

Fish, pastel drawing by Angelica Mijares, then 9 years old

Summer Art Workshop for Children, SPUQC, circa 2001

Once I wondered if ever fish sleep,

     Unless by sleep they remain still

In some quiet pool, like the cows and sheep,

     After their fill lie on a grassy hill.

Could either, I ask, bring about man’s ease

     And cease his mind to wonder and wander?

And where is that pool or that hill at peace,

     Save Flanders, or some place ever after?

Go live with Nature and find the meaning of life

Go live with Nature and find the meaning of life

Mural and Poem Dr Abe V Rotor

Countryside Scene in acrylic by the author 

 
If you've been in all your life living on the fast lane, trying to beat everyone, though you know you'll never win this nameless race;

If you've been residing in a high rise building, taller than everything around, and touching the clouds, and you know your feet is off the ground;

If you've been missing the passing of seasons, the wonders that each brings, though you keep the holidays and weekends;

If you've been constantly bothered by ailments that medicine can only relieve, and not cure, and doctors can only advise;

If you've lost contact with your roots through the years of searching for fame, wedging farther your connection, feeling like an a orphan;

If you've succeeded in your career, rising to the top to the awe and admiration of your colleagues, yet deep inside is a feeling of emptiness;

If you've reached retirement after all the years of work and its responsibilities, but trapped in a dull, prosaic life of boredom;

If you've lost your loved ones, alone you gather the pieces of a happy memories, nostalgic they are the rest of your life;

If you've been a good and loving guardian to your own children and other children, and they call you dad or lolo, and feeling being young again;

Get out of your confine, find a place in nature, live with her beauty and bounty, her people and community, you may yet find the meaning of life. ~

Fish Therapy

Fish Therapy

Dr Abe V Rotor

Albino Oscars display unique design with a colorful 

background. At home, QC.

Pisces in the constellation

     swim among the stars;

fish in a home aquarium

     soothe the day's scars. ~

Hideaway in a lovely realm

Hideaway in a lovely realm

Dr Abe V. Rotor

Scenic Tacloban, Leyte 2010. Typhoon Yolanda devastated the area in 2012.

If you can't find a place for respite,

If you can't eat and stretch your tired feet,

If your heart races for something it doesn't love,

It's time you slow down and look above.

If the road is too fast, your vision is blurred,

If people are no longer friendly but just a crowd,

If heads and machines never cease heating up

It's time to turn the knob to a stop.

If you have a family to share your love and pain

If you have good health before it goes down the drain,

If you want to live long, to hope and to dream,

It's time you hide in some lovely realm. ~

Forest World

Forest World

Dr Abe V Rotor

Forest Stream in acrylic, AVR

I am a world of a bigger world,

     connected and complete;

I catch the sunbeam and the cloud,

     make food for all to eat.

I cover the land, make it green,

     feed the stream and river;

I buffer the wind, block the flood,

    for all creatures I revere.~

Don't be a Victim of Heart Disease, the Number One Killer

Don't be a Victim of Heart Disease, 

the Number One Killer

Christmas and New Year's Resolution
Dr Abe V Rotor

I have known people - a number of them relatives, co-workers and former classmates - who died of heart disease.

If you have positive family history, you are a potential candidate to heart attack and its complications. Like Damocles Sword, you know the rules to live a long and happy life. There are ten factors you should be able to manage.

First, Don't smoke. Just don't.

Second, Exercise. Be active physically. Get out of your comfort zone.

Third, Reduce cholesterol level. Take less of meat and more fruits and vegetables.

Fourth, Never indulge in drinking.

Fifth, Live on healthy diet. Watch out your glucose level.

Sixth, Maintain normal blood pressure always.

Seventh, Don't be overweight. Reduce.

Eighth, Have regular medical checkup.

Ninth, Set a goal for your career and family.

Tenth, Have a positive outlook in life always. Reach out for life's meaning.

Why don't you download this article, print and pin it as a daily reminder?