“No one would have walked more than a hundred yards to see it,” Cox purportedly said later, defending his and Currey’s decision to have WPN-114 “sectioned.”
I'm so disgusted with this quote! It makes me angry. It didn't matter if anyone would ever want to go out and see the tree, it had survived for nearly 5,000 years, it should've been left alone. Yes they didn't have any idea of the tree's age beforehand but they were able to tell before touching it that it was much older than the others around it.
