I have a 100 yr old Fig tree growing in front of my place, it has tarred roads on two sides that literally run next to the trunk and practically suffocate it, a line of posts along one road harpooning its root system underneath, they savage it each year by cutting its lower branches so that trucks can go underneath and it is only 10 feet from the salt water lake. (I actually think that is its savior because that 10 feet of soil acts as a filter for the salt). But after all that it just shrugs and goes on, it looks great, no sickness, plenty of birds come to eat a huge abundance of fruit, nest in it and use it as protection in storms. Maybe the lesson is we can go on regardless what life throws at us, and is in fact the making of us 😀 ❤️ 🙏🏽 🦋

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