Tree 5×7 Print

Trees retake the world

This piece was drawn in like 2012 and is coming up on its 10 birthday 🎂 I love trees very much because I’m a big fat hippy and so here are some tree facts:

Trees don’t really die of age and with good conditions, just keep growing. Since most of a plants physical mass is carbon (from the air itself) they only require air, abundant everywhere, and rain from time to time. I used to think they just drained particles from the ground and depleted the soil that way, but it works very differently than that

The only trees that ever really “die” of age are Palms when they get too tall and fall over, but that is typical of a central-growing and non branching grass, which they are. Giant grasses that we just call trees because they’re big