The Persistence of Roots
In the arid landscape of Joshua Tree National Park, botanists have long marveled at how desert willows survive. These trees send their roots downward through...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Matthew 7:7-8.
In the arid landscape of Joshua Tree National Park, botanists have long marveled at how desert willows survive. These trees send their roots downward through layers of calcium-hardite rock, sometimes drilling sixty feet below the surface to reach underground water tables. The roots don't punch through all at once. They secrete a mild acid, dissolving limestone grain by grain, millimeter by millimeter, season after season.…
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