TV5Monde - Histoires d'Arbres (2015) Part 4 Vanquishing Time

Stories about Trees.

This series discovers remarkable trees emblematic of Europe through the singular relationship that men have with them. The series draws a new map, revealing a Europe rooted in its soil, its history, its legends and speaking without knowing a common language that of these remarkable trees that embody the present, both in its past and future.

Part 4 Vanquishing Time

A thousand year-old olive tree in Oletta, Corsica, and a spruce named Old Tjikko in Sweden; both appear to defy time itself. The first still produces olives; the second grows wild and has survived the extreme conditions of northern Scandinavia for more than 9,000 years.

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