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    In 1997, Julia “Butterfly” Hill climbed a 1,000-year-old redwood tree and lived 180 feet in the air for 738 days. Suspended on tiny platforms, she survived 90 mph El Niño storms and near constant harassment from loggers. But she refused to touch the ground until she successfully saved the tree.


    In 1997, Julia “Butterfly” Hill climbed a 1,000-year-old redwood tree and lived 180 feet in the air for 738 days. Suspended on tiny platforms, she survived 90 mph El Niño storms and near constant harassment from loggers. But she refused to touch the ground until she successfully saved the tree.

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    6. beebs44 on

      J. Butterfly is in the treetop

      The world I love, the tears I drop

      To be part of the wave, can’t stop

      Ever wonder if it’s all for you?

      The world I love, the trains I hop

      To be part of the wave, can’t stop

      Come and tell me when it’s time to

    12. The-0mega-Man on

      She went up to bring attention to logging old growth forests but all anyone wanted to talk about was a hot young woman being up a tall tree alone at night. She ended up making a deal to save *her* tree and not be sued. Then she wrote a best selling book. Hardly any kind of hero.

    17. Otherwise_Pitch8119 on

      It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls
      who neither know victory nor defeat.

      Teddy Roosevelt

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