A Funeral For A Species

[GippyHappy]

Man was so drunk he hit the only thing he could hit within a 20 mile radius

[Royal_Fortune]

That man hitting the loneliest tree in the world is absolute proof of drunk magnetism.

[benlogicfactsshapiro]

“The oldest Bald Cypress was burnt down by a Florida woman”

Most believable sentence I ever heard.

[MintyDreams]

The fact the some people are like this is what keeps me up at night. There's nothing that hasn't been touched by mindless cruelty or senseless destruction for no point at all. I'm so tired of the bleakness.

[TheMaxFusionGaming]

“Endling” is such a beautifully haunting phrase.
Good grief.

[Adamek]

Managed to piss me off in only 13 seconds. Congrats, Michael.

[derpboi]

It’s crazy how passenger pigeons went from numbering in the billions to going extinct in only about 100 years

[pat]

I cannot stress how based Aldo Leopold was. Conservation as we know it today just wouldn’t exist. He put so many concepts into words for the first time, trophic cascades, wildlife management, insisting on the importance of native species, the modern concept of wilderness areas. So much.

He died a year after he wrote that passenger pigeon essay.

[evanlucas]

I am filled with such deep sadness when I read about passenger pigeons. They were so numerous that when a flock was flying overhead it would stretch from horizon to horizon. It would take hours for it to pass. I am indescribably sad that I will never be able to see such a wonderful for myself.

[SteveNathn]

Gotta wonder why somebody was drunk driving out there anyway, and managed to hit the tree

[jack_walt]

I live close to Sycamore Gap, some good news is that seeds were collected from the tree to grow new saplings and new shoots have recently popped up from the stump, so hopefully the original tree will regrow

[Nunya]

This was a really moving video. That excerpt was beautifully written by that guy too

[OmnipotentNoodle]

The tree of Tenere was a true majesty, too. It was widely known as an important landmark in the area, and a well was dug near the tree for travellers, revealing that its root structure stretched over 100 feet deep into the water table. The tree grew when the Sahara was far greener, and was the last remaining survivor of its community, owing to its impressive roots.

[Bonesmx]

The drunk driver hitting a tree out in the open is like the 2 guys in Ohio crashing the only 2 cars in the whole state

[unleashed]

Imagine being that bird, calling out and hoping you hear a response. You fly from place to place trying endlessly to no avail. Kind of feels like humans probing the universe for signs of life.

[Blazeinbluebecausewhynot]

Omg i love that! Despite the horrible actions some humans can do we can also be able to feel so much grief and regret for another species and devotion to preserving and saving a different species population.

[XENOXTA]

“Had the funeral been ours, the pigeons would hardly have mourned us” is such an ominous, foreboding and yet bizarre quote, it feels like the end to a dystopian novel.

[ryzekiv]

“How many hundreds of years it must have taken, to grow a garden so grand…
And in mere moments, it is reduced to nothing.”



So, for the record:
This is either an original by me or is so long ingrained in my brain that any potential plagiarism is accidental or coincidence.
The former is the current case.

[iceran]

I will never understand the desire to destroy the unique…. It’s so vile and pointless, I just can’t wrap my head around what is going on these people’s minds.

[_Stray]

there's something poetic about the word "endling"
to be the last member of your species