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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“Old age is an insult. It’s like being smacked.”
—Lawrence Durrell (1912–1990)
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—Bible: New Testament, Luke 18:29,30.
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—Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)