I'm sure that the younger forest trees collude to hide the older trees. When upon them, such as this mighty 6m circumference Oak, you're awed by their size and presence, but get a few meters away and they appear to disappear, melt into the forest. Maybe that's how these leviathans have survived to the age they have; and what an age they are. This Oak would have been a mere sapling when Elizabeth the first was on the thrown. It will have seen so many changes in the world of man and as a consequence of mans actions, so many changes in the land. 500 years, such a small period in geological history, and to a lesser degree even in human history, but it might as well be a world apart for the changes we've ensued and the damage we've wrought. What must the wild wood have been like?
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