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The land of hemlock, douglas fir and giant redwood.
鐵杉，花旗松，巨杉。
Here, water is never locked up in ice, and even if rains fail
這里，水再也不會冰封，即使不下雨，
the needles can extract moisture from the fogs that roll in from the sea.
針葉也可以從海上蜂擁而來的水霧中汲取水分。
The Sun's energy powers these forests, not for one month as it does in the Taiga but for half the year.
太陽給森林帶來的生長能量，不是北極的一個月，而是半年。
These conifers grow at ten times the rate of those near the Arctic, and they live for thousands of years.
這些樹木的生長速度是北極圈附近樹木的10倍，壽命更可達數千年。
One grove of redwoods in California contains three of the tallest trees on Earth.
加利福尼亞的這塊紅杉林，世界樹木高度排行前三名的樹都在這里。
This one is over a hundred meters high, the size of a thirty story building.
這顆超過100米的樹有30層樓房那么高。
These forests were growing here long before humans walked the Earth.
這片森林遠在人類直立行走之前就出現了。
They were in their prime twenty million years ago,
2000萬年前它們就已經在這里，
and existed before the Swiss Alps or the Rocky Mountains were even raised.
甚至比阿爾卑斯山和洛基山脈隆起的時間還要早。
