Over 15,000 scientists go to San Francisco every year for that.

This is the spruce Gran Picea, which at 9,550 years is a mere babe in the woods.

The Eastern Hemlock tree has often been described as the Redwood of the East.

This is the Fortingall Yew no, I'm just kidding this is the Fortingall Yew.

It was called Prototaxites.

I like L.A. better.

I like L.A. better.

Now, I'm going to take you to Los Angeles, and lots of people know that L.A. has its issues.

And back to the yew here.

This is the realm of the Coast Redwood tree.

Redwoods grow very slowly in their tops.

Finally, tonight we have a great story out of Los Angeles. East LA to be precise.

And then finally, in L.A. I was asked to do a sculpture at the foot of Interstate Bank Tower, the highest building in L.A.

In fact, we moved from Stratford to Los Angeles.

And then it bursts into a forest of Redwoods.

Let's do one in L.A.

The blue whale, it's a dwarf if compared with the real biggest creature that exists on the planet that is, this wonderful, magnificent Sequoiadendron giganteum.

If a portion of a Redwood is rotting, the Redwood will send roots into its own form and draw nutrients out of itself as it falls apart.

To us, when we look at a Redwood tree, it seems to be motionless and still, and yet Redwoods are constantly in motion, moving upward into space, articulating themselves and filling Redwood space over Redwood time, over thousands of years.

A Redwood is a fractal. And as they put out limbs, the limbs burst into small trees, copies of the Redwood.

He boarded a plane bound for Los Angeles.

Prototaxites, laying down, was about three feet tall.

These are Serphas lighting juniper branches.

He stopped over at Los Angeles and Chicago.

This is the copy of the letter that they sent to Artaxerxes the king Your servants the men beyond the River, and so forth.

This is the copy of the letter that they sent to Artaxerxes the king Your servants the men beyond the River, and so forth.

This is the copy of the letter that they sent unto him, even unto Artaxerxes the king Thy servants the men on this side the river, and at such a time.

This is the copy of the letter that they sent unto him, even unto Artaxerxes the king Thy servants the men on this side the river, and at such a time.

Steve Sillett, when he was a 19 year old college student at Reed College, had heard that the Redwood forest canopy is considered to be a so called Redwood desert.

The Redwood species seems to exist in another kind of time not human time, but what we might call Redwood time.

The second thing is that some people call this the cloud, and you're kind of touching the cloud with this.

This is a recent comic strip from the Los Angeles Times.

They believe juniper smoke is holy.

Los Angeles is one of the places that I'd like to visit.

Think about this tree, rising upward into Redwood space, 325 feet, 32 stories, an individual living organism articulating its forms upward into space over long periods of time.

This is the Caltrans building in Los Angeles.

And it happened because I met a girl in Watts, L.A.

He is the new musical director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra.

But I'm going to talk about L.A.'s water issues right now.

But it's believed that the oldest living Redwoods are perhaps 2,500 years old roughly the age of the Parthenon although it's also suspected that there may be individual trees that are older than that.

And this is a living organism that has a mass of at least 2,000 tons.

The women in this room and watching in L.A.

And that's us down there in L.A. and Long Beach on the bottom.

Clouds such as this have been identified previously with the progenitors of current galaxies.

There are clouds, right.