Anne Frank tree blown over

Arclight · 08-23-10, 07:26 AM

After a long period of troubles such as disease, infestation and being treathened to be cut down, mother nature herself now delivered the finishing blow. The tree is aparently blown down and snapped in two.

Not much news on it yet, just happened; http://www.24oranges.nl/2010/08/23/b...terdam-broken/

It's called the Anne Frank tree since it's the same chestnut tree she describes in her diary. From Wiki:

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The tree is mentioned three times in Anne Frank's diary The Diary of a Young Girl. On 23 February 1944 she writes about the tree:

Nearly every morning I go to the attic to blow the stuffy air out of my lungs, from my favorite spot on the floor I look up at the blue sky and the bare chestnut tree, on whose branches little raindrops shine, appearing like silver, and at the seagulls and other birds as they glide on the wind. As long as this exists, I thought, and I may live to see it, this sunshine, the cloudless skies, while this lasts I cannot be unhappy.

Otto Frank, Anne's father, described his thoughts upon reading the diary for the first time in a 1968 speech. He described his surprise at learning of the tree's importance to Anne as follows:

How could I have suspected that it meant so much to Anne to see a patch of blue sky, to observe the gulls during their flight and how important the chestnut tree was to her, as I recall that she never took an interest in nature. But she longed for it during that time when she felt like a caged bird. She only found consolation in thinking about nature. But she had kept such feelings completely to herself.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Frank_tree

Jimbuna · 08-23-10, 07:34 AM

That's a shame, I've walked past that tree many times over the years.

A piece of history lost forever.

Arclight · 08-23-10, 08:07 AM

A living piece of history at that (well, good part of it was rotten from the disease, but still), something unique as well. Sad.

Schroeder · 08-23-10, 08:10 AM

Nothing is for eternity.

FIREWALL · 08-23-10, 09:55 AM

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Originally Posted by Schroeder

Nothing is for eternity.

I could respond to that but, it would be rude to Arclight and his thread.

Schroeder · 08-23-10, 11:12 AM

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Originally Posted by FIREWALL

I could respond to that but, it would be rude to Arclight and his thread.

Weiss Pinguin · 08-23-10, 09:30 AM

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Originally Posted by jimbuna

A piece of history lost forever.

Unfortunately

08-23-10, 07:34 AM	#2
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 190,770 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	That's a shame, I've walked past that tree many times over the years. A piece of history lost forever. __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!

08-23-10, 08:07 AM	#3
Arclight Navy Seal Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Land of windmills, tulips, wooden shoes and cheese. Lots of cheese. Posts: 8,467 Downloads: 53 Uploads: 10	A living piece of history at that (well, good part of it was rotten from the disease, but still), something unique as well. Sad. __________________ Contritium praecedit superbia.

08-23-10, 08:10 AM	#4
Schroeder Navy Seal Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Banana Republic of Germany Posts: 6,170 Downloads: 62 Uploads: 0	Nothing is for eternity. __________________ Putting Germ back into Germany.