In the early 19th century the American Chestnut (Castanea dentata) comprised 25% of all hardwoods in the eastern US
Four billion have been killed by the chestnut blight
A squirrel used to be able to walk from New England to Georgia on the branches of chestnuts
the horror
Neutron star material is remarkably dense: a normal-sized matchbox containing neutron-star material would have a weight of approximately 3 billion tonnes, the same weight as a 0.5-cubic-kilometer chunk of the Earth (a cube with edges of about 800 meters) from Earth's surface.
A bayou is a slow moving, low lying, brackish body of water which in fish and bacterial life characteristic of the southeastern united states. A coulee is a term applied rather loosely to different landforms.
Respect the Mighty Oak. Orient yourself to the gods among us. Their form is unimaginably complex. Indecipherable. The mighty oak represents all there is to know.