Its exalted trunk and sinuous branches ramify and then arch toward the Andalucián Skydome.
Beneath its silvan majesty, travellers stop and look in awe. All around there is the hushed and gentle murmur, redolent of the English village church.
Something has stirred deep inside this sapient being; a distant mitochondrial memory of our hominin beginnings in an ancient primeval forest.
For here in front of me stands the first and original holy place of our human kind.
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