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the original carbon-capture machine that builds violins, ships, and entire civilizations from sunlight and patience
means The hard fibrous material that forms the trunk and branches of trees, used for building, burning, and crafting.
from From Old English 'wudu,' meaning both tree and forest, with cousins across the old Germanic languages — Old Norse 'viðr,' Old High German 'witu.' Scholars trace it further back to a Proto-Germanic root and, more tentatively, a Proto-Indo-European source possibly linked to words for trees and timber. The double sense survives in English to this day: 'wood' is both the stuff a tree is made of and the place where many trees stand together.
- living memory
- tree rings record droughts and fires for millennia
- stronger than steel
- by weight, wood beats steel in tension
- floats on purpose
- trapped air pockets keep dense fibers buoyant
- sound machine
- spruce resonates so well it makes Stradivarius violins
- oldest skyscraper
- Japan's wooden pagoda survived 1,400 years of earthquakes
amazon rainforest — world's largest tropical forest spanning 5.5 million km² across 9 countries
black forest — ancient forest in southwest germany, 6,000 km² of dense woodland
redwood national park — coastal california containing earth's tallest trees, some over 380 feet