Let me tell you what it’s like to see your first sequoia tree. You are walking through a vast forest in California’s Sierra Nevada mountains, at an elevation greater than 6,500 feet. There are all pines and cedars on all sides. Some are towering trees as high as 150 feet. You know that the sequoias are ahead but gasp when the first one comes into sight. Of all the trees you have ever seen before, this is the biggest, and it’s a breathtaking sight. When Patty and I saw our first sequoias . . .
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