# The Story of a Thousand-Year Pine

Author: Mills, Enos A., 1870-1922

Genre: Category: Nature/Gardening/Animals

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/41972

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Story+of+a+Thousand-Year+Pine+Mills&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

The peculiar charm and fascination that trees exert over many people I had always felt from childhood, but it was that great nature-lover, John Muir, who first showed me how and where to learn their language. Few trees, however, ever held for me such an attraction as did a gigantic and venerable yellow pine which I discovered one autumn day several years ago while exploring the southern Rockies. It grew within sight of the Cliff-Dwellers’ Mesa Verde, which stands at the corner of four States, and as I came upon it one evening just as the sun was setting over that mysterious tableland, its character and heroic proportions made an impression upon me that I shall never forget, and which fami...

## Chapters

- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-story-of-a-thousand-year-pine-41972/chapters/1/index.md)