Ideas · 2026-08-12 · 55 min · 8,710 words

Walk with us through a rare old-growth forest in peril

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This is a CBC Podcast. Welcome to ideas. I'm Nala Ayad. In the eighteen hundreds, the American clergyman and social reformer Henry Ward Beecher wrote.

Of all men's works of art. A cathedral is greatest. A vast and majestic tree. Is greater than that. It's in an old growth forest where that majesty is truly found.

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