The huge redwood fell in the famous California’s national park last Friday. Just think of it! Generations succeeded by generations. Some states collapsed and others were formed. Monarchs reigned for centuries. The world wars started and ended. Epidemic diseases covered half the globe. The mankind invented gunpowder, gasoline engine, nuclear power plants, flights to the moon, flu shots and cheeseburgers…

As for the long-lived giants, they continue to watch how one era is replaced by another one.