There is a sleeping giant in the middle of Utah- a place where the world’s largest organism has lived for millennia. Pando was ancient when Christianity was new. It lay dreaming in loam-filled beds near the shores of Lake Bonneville while humanity was covering itself in animal skins and inventing names for the stars. When North America was covered in ice, Pando waited, drawing its roots in around it like a cloak, and waited for the years and decades to pass until the sun returned.
Our lives are as brief as that of a mayfly when compared to Pando, the great Old One of the American southwest. He was here before the first bipedal primate trudged across the primordial land-bridge and settled the land. God willing, he always remain.
– Allan Lacoste
