God's Wild Church
Personal memory by Megan Hollingsworth
2013 • Calaveras County, CA, USA
The grove was a cathedral, quiet with sequoia standing like pillars from floor to ceiling, three hundred foot pillars of earth kissing sky, sequoia there to remind people of infinite possibility, to cure people of arrogance, and to ensure people's devotion to something that lasts longer than a person's short lifetime, pillars of sequoia aged 1,000 years and more, dismantled within two years of their discovery by people who were taught that cathedrals are made by human hands. I first read of Calaveras Big Trees in 2012 thanks to the story as told by Paul Hawken in Blessed Unrest.
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