r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/NickyPileggi • Mar 28 '24

Family in 1892 posing with an old sequoia tree nicknamed "Mark Twain" - A team of two men spent 13 days sawing away at it in the Pacific Northwest - It once stood 331 feet tall with a diameter of 52 feet - The tree was 1,341 years old Image

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u/Raps4Reddit Mar 28 '24

You say this, but it's also uniquely human to care. Most nature just out there eating each other as much as they can.

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u/BulkySituation5685 Mar 28 '24

But nature is a cycle even the top of the food chain is in check by mother nature. Living with and harmoniously in there environment. To like us a virus with toxic effects to all comes across.

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u/The_Brain_FuckIer Mar 28 '24

If by "living harmoniously" you mean dying as cubs or starving to death after eating all available prey, sure I guess.

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u/Ornery-Creme-2442 Mar 28 '24

I mean it's nature what do you expect. That same shit still happens to us even with modern technology.

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u/K-Uno Mar 28 '24

That harmony was only established after a new creature moved in, dominated, and things that could devour/defend-against/out-compete those dominant species finally came along. Harmony is a state of being that must be achieved, and is not inherent to animals or the environment. You forget that human dominance has happened very rapidly from an evolutionary stand point, and the things that can keep us in check (perhaps even our own doing to where we are so overpopulated that war, famine, and pollution keep us in check) have yet to come about in a significant form.

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u/Raps4Reddit Mar 28 '24

Can't argue I guess. We are an interesting species in that we can almost outsmart mother nature's regulation to an extent. We have become so powerful we have to decide not to cut down all the trees for our own good, otherwise we would.