This is the spruce Gran Picea, which at 9,550 years is a mere babe in the woods.

That tree...!

We have now discovered that there is a multi directional transfer of nutrients between plants, mitigated by the mcyelium so the mycelium is the mother that is giving nutrients from alder and birch trees to hemlocks, cedars and Douglas firs.

Slowly I enter the shadow of a spruce.

Gran means spruce ! Harald Gran.

There's the old cemetery, squirrels, buttercups, daisies.

These are Serphas lighting juniper branches.

We have fir trees, the forests are tightly packed

Over 15,000 scientists go to San Francisco every year for that.

They believe juniper smoke is holy.

I'll bet you told her all your trees were sequoias.

A garden planted with pine trees.

They stop before a redwood trunk marked with historical dates.

Taking photos of pines...

Search again in the shrubs and there under the fir.

Lived at a boardinghouse out on Spruce Street. Mrs. Hirsch's.

To us, when we look at a Redwood tree, it seems to be motionless and still, and yet Redwoods are constantly in motion, moving upward into space, articulating themselves and filling Redwood space over Redwood time, over thousands of years.

But my friend, there's no joy in happiness.

Grandview Arms on Pine Street.

Like the mountains, and the hills, deer, pine trees and the wind.

Loss of the ancient cedar, pine, fir, and oak forests on the slopes above is another matter. This year s snowmelt caused landslides and flooding a warning of more soil erosion and destruction of arable land to come hundreds died and thousands lost their livelihoods.

And yet, when you look at the base of a Redwood tree, you're not seeing the organism.

What can the Redwoods tell us about ourselves?

I'm not going to relax until we get on that freeway and out of L.A.

A Redwood is a fractal. And as they put out limbs, the limbs burst into small trees, copies of the Redwood.

It's the same in the forest. Every pine tree is different.

Steve Sillett, when he was a 19 year old college student at Reed College, had heard that the Redwood forest canopy is considered to be a so called Redwood desert.

And We send down water as a blessing from the sky, and grow gardens with it and the grain for harvest,

And We sent down the auspicious water from the sky, therefore producing gardens with it, and the grain that is harvested.

And We sent down out of heaven water blessed, and caused to grow thereby gardens and grain of harvest

And We have sent down from the heaven water brest wherewith We have caused gardens to grow and the grain reaped.

And We send down blessed water (rain) from the sky, then We produce therewith gardens and grain (every kind of harvests) that are reaped.

And We brought down from the sky blessed water, and produced with it gardens and grain to harvest.

We also sent down blessed water from the heaven, wherewith We caused gardens and harvest grain to grow,

And We send down from the sky blessed water whereby We give growth unto gardens and the grain of crops,

We send down from the sky salubrious water, with which We grow gardens and the grain which is harvested,

We sent down blessed water from the sky with which We caused gardens and the grains of harvest to grow,

And We have sent down blessed rain from the sky and made grow thereby gardens and grain from the harvest

We have sent blessed water down from the sky to grow gardens, harvestable crops

And We send down from the cloud water abounding in good, then We cause to grow thereby gardens and the grain that is reaped,

and We have sent down from the sky blessed water with which We have brought forth gardens and grain to be harvested,

And We send down from the sky rain charted with blessing, and We produce therewith gardens and Grain for harvests

We're looking at the very top of Gaya, which is thought to be the oldest Redwood.

Think about this tree, rising upward into Redwood space, 325 feet, 32 stories, an individual living organism articulating its forms upward into space over long periods of time.

What you're looking at now is a tree called Jomon Sugi, living on the remote island of Yakushima.