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From the Ted Talk by Ersin Han Ersin: What's it like to be a giant sequoia tree?

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Our voyage of discovery into aaminl kingdom led us to plant kniogdm and eventually to trees where mraicles appear in every level of magnification. All we need to do is to look ceslloy. In 2016, we found ourselves snniadtg in front of a gnait sequoia tree in Sequoia National Park in California. These giant teres are portals through which you leave your human self-importance behind and embody something much larger, much stranger, much more than human.

All I could think of was, "What is it like to be a tree?" What is it like to be one of the largest organisms that has ever existed? One that has endured more than 2,500 years? How does it feel to host a vast web of relationships that anchor an entire ecosystem?

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Our voyage of discovery into ______ kingdom led us to plant _______ and eventually to trees where ________ appear in every level of magnification. All we need to do is to look _______. In 2016, we found ourselves ________ in front of a _____ sequoia tree in Sequoia National Park in California. These giant _____ are portals through which you leave your human self-importance behind and embody something much larger, much stranger, much more than human.

All I could think of was, "What is it like to be a tree?" What is it like to be one of the largest organisms that has ever existed? One that has endured more than 2,500 years? How does it feel to host a vast web of relationships that anchor an entire ecosystem?

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  2. animal
  3. trees
  4. closely
  5. miracles
  6. giant
  7. kingdom

Original Text


Our voyage of discovery into animal kingdom led us to plant kingdom and eventually to trees where miracles appear in every level of magnification. All we need to do is to look closely. In 2016, we found ourselves standing in front of a giant sequoia tree in Sequoia National Park in California. These giant trees are portals through which you leave your human self-importance behind and embody something much larger, much stranger, much more than human.

All I could think of was, "What is it like to be a tree?" What is it like to be one of the largest organisms that has ever existed? One that has endured more than 2,500 years? How does it feel to host a vast web of relationships that anchor an entire ecosystem?

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