Redwood National and State Parks in California, U.S., is like a forest where giants live. It’s because redwoods, the tallest trees in the world, inhabit in the parks. Redwoods boast of their height; they are as tall as a 30-story building, which is about 100 meters (328 feet). As they are too tall to draw water from the root to the highest reaches of the trees, the upper part of the trees absorbs moisture from fog. The trunk is so big that even a car can drive through it.
They look deeply rooted into the ground as much as they grow up into the sky, but their roots are only about three meters (10 feet) deep. Despite that, they do not easily waver or collapse. What is more, their lifespan is more than 1,000 years. How can they sustain their huge bodies with shallow roots for such long years?
Redwoods have the nature of stretching the roots sideways. Outwardly, they are separate from each other, but inwardly the roots are linked together like one body. The way they do not fall even by strong winds is that they hold and help each other. They survive not alone but together.