This was just an amazing story. I ran into this quite by accident, but was glad that I did.
There is a Bonsai Tree which was planted was back in 1625, or almost 400 years ago. Think about how long ago that was. Back then, contact between Japan and the West was minimal. The tragic European colonization of much of the world was still only beginning. The Dutch had not yet arrived in South Africa. The British had not yet colonized Australia. The United States as a nation did not exist, and the Revolutionary War was still over a century and a half away. The population of the world was still significantly less than 1 billion. Nobody had yet heard of Napoleon, or Washington, or Hitler, or Churchill, or Gandhi, or Mandela. The American Revolution, French Revolution, Industrial Revolution and Russian Revolution were all still quite far off, as were the world wars and our use of electricity. Nobody had heard of anyone named Mozart or Beethoven, much less the Beatles. Shakespeare had only died a few years earlier, and his writings were not yet known around the world.
All of that happened during the lifetime of this incredible Bonsai Tree! How much the world has been transformed just during the lifespan of this beautiful Bonsai Tree!
What a story. Click below for more details:
This Bonsai Survived Hiroshima But Its Story Was Nearly Lost The Japanese white pine weathered four centuries of history, including the atomic bomb.by Rachel A. Becker, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC, August 5, 2015:
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/1508050-japanese-bonsai-survived-hiroshima-bombing#:~:text=The%20Japanese%20white%20pine%2C%20which,the%20United%20States%20in%201975.
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