Its awesome to think of how old and large these trees can get. Back in the summer at my church camp there was a tree called the King David Tree that unfortunately fell over a year or two ago. But before that it was one of the tallest trees in the Sierra Nevadas, and was estimated to be almost 3,000 years old (hence naming it the King David tree since it was about the same age as he was rumored to have lived, only miles apart). But imagine 8,000, and how wise those trees must be to have seen hundreds of generations of humans wither away below its branches.