ESSAY: Desecrations

ghost trees cut and burned in Australia - they were important markers of a songline and sacred to the indigenous peoples of Australia“

...the tree was alive and well; it was just fantastically rare. So rare, in fact, that it warranted its own scientific name: Picea sitchensis 'Aurea.' Picea sitchensis is the Latin name for the Sitka spruce, and Aurea is Latin for "golden" or "gleaming like gold," but it can also mean "beautiful" or "splendid." Sixteen stories tall and more than twenty feet around, the golden spruce was unique in the botanical world.” (from the book).

The rare yellow tree was destroyed by a maddened environmentalist who took its life in a illogical statement about conservation to his fellow passengers on earth.