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Trees. Surely among the most magnificent of all living things.
樹木，是眾多生命中的偉大一員。
Some are the largest organisms on Earth, dwarfing all others, and these are the tallest of them all.
有些樹是地球上最大的物種，其他生命在它面前顯得相當渺小，這些是長得最高的一種樹。
The deciduous and coniferous woodlands that grow in the seasonal parts of our planet
落葉林和針葉林都生長在地球上有明顯季節變化的地區，
are the most extensive forests on Earth.
在地球上分布最為廣泛。
Their sheer extent stuns the imagination.
它們的分布之廣，超出想象。
The barren snows of the Arctic.
冰雪覆蓋的北極地區。
A thousand miles from the North Pole, and heading south.
這是距離北極點以南1000英里的地方。
This is the very first place that trees can grow.
這也是樹木長到的最北處。
To begin with the conifers are sparse, but soon they dominate the land.
一開始松樹比較稀疏，再往南它們便馬上支配了大陸。
This is the Taiga Forest.
這就是泰加針葉林。
There are as many trees here, as in all the world's rainforests combined.
它的面積是所有熱帶雨林面積的總和。
The Taiga circles the globe and contains a third of all the trees on Earth.
針葉林環球分布，占全球所有樹木總量的三分之一。
It produces so much oxygen, that it refreshes the atmosphere of the entire planet.
它制造了大量的氧氣，是我們這個地球的空氣清新劑。
