The Stump That Didn’t Die

At some point, a kauri tree fell in a New Zealand forest, and no one noticed. Nor did anyone pay attention when the remnant of its trunk rotted away, leaving behind a stump that’s barely even a stump-a chair-size, hollowed-out half cylinder, sticking up from the middle of a hiking trail, leafless and apparently dead. […]
The Stump That Didn’t Die

At some point, a kauri tree fell in a New Zealand forest, and no one noticed. Nor did anyone pay attention when the remnant of its trunk rotted away, leaving behind a stump that’s barely even a stump-a chair-size, hollowed-out half cylinder, sticking up from the middle of a hiking trail, leafless and apparently dead. […]






