Some were more than a century old but still sturdy and doing their jobs. Many others were young and willowy, just getting going. Some of them were inscrutable; no one truly knew them or how they got there. But others felt like old friends.
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[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/trees
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