Project Gutenberg 2013-02-02 Public domain in the USA. 78 Mills, Enos A. 1870 1922 Mills, Enos Abijah 14012822 The Story of a Thousand-Year Pine Produced by Greg Bergquist, Matthew Wheaton and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) "The Story of a Thousand-Year Pine" by Enos A. Mills is a reflective nature piece written in the early 20th century. This book explores the life of a majestic yellow pine tree, affectionately named "Old Pine," which stood for over a thousand years in the southern Rockies. Through its narrative, Mills delves into the interaction between nature and humanity, portraying the profound history embedded within this ancient tree. The book chronicles the personal journey of the author as he discovers Old Pine and eventually witnesses its demise at the hands of loggers. Mills meticulously examines the tree's growth rings, each representing a year in its life, and recounts the trials it endured through naturally occurring calamities and human encounters. He imagines the stories hidden within its fibers, including the scars left by arrowheads, axe marks, and fire, connecting the tree's biography to the broader human history of exploration and settlement in the region. Ultimately, the narrative serves as a poignant meditation on the life of trees, the passage of time, and the delicate balance between preservation and progress. (This is an automatically generated summary.) file:///public/vhost/g/gutenberg/html/files/41972/41972-h/images/cover.jpg en Pine QK Text Browsing: Nature/Gardening/Animals Browsing: Science - General 54784 54793 2024-09-17T14:37:46.127372 2023-09-18T09:23:50.870005 text/html text/html 50690 2013-02-02T10:59:28 text/html; charset=utf-8 459183 2013-02-02T11:00:38 text/html; charset=utf-8 application/zip 493555 2024-09-17T14:37:48.560347 application/epub+zip 492271 2024-09-17T14:37:46.744350 application/epub+zip 61432 2024-09-17T14:37:46.416471 application/epub+zip 519143 2024-09-17T14:37:50.110343 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 506104 2024-09-17T14:37:48.230336 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 77567 2022-09-19T08:05:50.282172 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 41705 2024-09-17T14:37:45.910347 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 41494 2013-02-02T10:59:24 text/plain; charset=utf-8 15958 2013-02-02T11:00:38 text/plain; charset=utf-8 application/zip 41434 2013-02-02T11:00:10 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 15917 2013-02-02T11:00:38 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 41425 2013-02-02T11:00:10 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 15898 2013-02-02T11:00:38 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 21454 2024-09-17T14:37:50.256483 application/rdf+xml 13282 2024-09-17T14:37:46.494350 image/jpeg 1920 2024-09-17T14:37:46.454350 image/jpeg 466878 2024-09-17T14:37:46.172345 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia