Age
It is thought that Foxtail Pines can live up to 3000 years in the Sierra Nevada, although the highest currently proven age is 2110 years. In the Klamath Mountains, ages are only known to about 1000 years.
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Famous quotes containing the word age:
“Methinks the truth should live from age to age,
As ‘twere retailed to all posterity,
Even to the general all-ending day.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“I don’t believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)
“The age of a woman doesn’t mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.”
—Sigmund Z. Engel (b. 1869)