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FROM earliest times the oak tree has been held sacred by all people in all countries, and it is not surprising that it was worshipped by the rude and savage barbarians who inhabited Great Britain two thousand years ago, when Druids held their services under their sacred oaks. In comparison to their ignorant and primitive forms of worship it is good to think that these wild people were impressed by the solemn beauty of their great forests, where tall trunks of trees, roofed in with foliage, made natural cathedrals in the open air.
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HOWARD, A. The Oak Tree. Nature 153, 438–441 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1038/153438a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/153438a0