The Curious Case of the Tree That Owns Itself
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In the city of Athens, Georgia there exists a rather curious local landmark- a large white oak that is almost universally stated to own itself. Because of this, it is considered one of the more famous trees in the world. So how did this tree come to own itself and the land around it, and does the government agree with the general public’s sentiment that it legally does?
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Didn't you Already made a video about this. Because I remember watching this. In the past?
@@nicholashansen just deja Vu
So, you call it "fun", eh? ;)
Nope -Daven
Personally, I"m amazed you remembered to actually add the link below. You should have continued the brick joke of never being arsed.
As an Athens native, I can confirm we do pretty much consider the tree to be the landowner.
Damn right - Try to build on that property and there would be an insurrection.
A tree owning itself? Could it? Should it?...Wood it?
😂
Very clever 😂
Why don't you make like a tree and get out of here?
@@Pining_for_the_fjords I'd leave if you were intimidating. But alas, your bark is worse than your bite.
@@stevesmith1383 you should be a poet, dude! 😂
As a UGA undergrad in Athens, I walked by this tree many times! It has a small plaque in front saying that it owns itself.
Really where? I'm a student there too. Ive never heard of it til now.
K.T K it’s on one of the connecting streets between Baxter and Broad St. I don’t remember the cross-street’s name but it’s close to Creswell.
@@KTK-mp7iw It's at the corner of Finley and Dearing streets - Just go to the bottom of broad street, turn up Finley, bump over a bunch of cobblestones and it's sitting very prominently at the top of the hill - You will need to drive around it, sticks out in the middle of the road. www.google.com/maps/@33.9552359,-83.3824183,3a,75y,164.81h,80.75t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sA6URz0hgf7MKvp7SFnLMzA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en&authuser=0
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Thanks! As someone who will never actually see that tree in person, that street view link was cool.
I helped monitor that tree in the ‘90’s as I got my Hort BS. It’s slammed between apartments on top of the hill about a block from the dorms. Thank you for this! And it’s binary, dioecious? Both male and female.
Oaks are "monoecious" meaning "one home" - the flowers are unisexual with separate male and female flowers are on the same tree. So it could be considered "bisexual" in a botanical sense, though you may prefer to use that for flowers that contain both sexes.
@@Sylvicolus You both missed the mark. If it was bisexual, then it would be attracted to other trees of either sex. If it had that type of orientation, it would be considered autosexual. All of which is complete poppycock. Since it has both sexes it would be considered non-binary. Which takes the "attraction" out and just states its orientation. Native Americans refer to this as nadleeh or two spirited.
Botanically speaking the term is monoecious. All the rest is human rubbish being imposed on a tree.
@@timothyneiswander3151 Gotta love ending on "human rubbish" after spouting off to that exact end several times prior. But yeah, monoecious is correct. Thought hermaphroditic for a moment then realized their flowers can't produce both gametes.
@@timothyneiswander3151 I agreed with you that the correct term is monoecious. An oak tree can cross-pollinate with either male or female flowers of other oak individuals (sort of seems "bisexual" in a way). "Autosexual" does not apply because oaks very rarely self-pollinate with themselves. I agree that trying to apply any animal orientation terms to plant pollination behavior doesn't work well.
@@custos3249 Yeah, I was trying to point out how absurd it was by being absurd and then failed to tie it up neatly.
Awww this is too sweet. The tree owner was the original tree hugger.
@@eurofox994 "tree fetish"
is that better?
I believe the tale of the tree that owns it’s self is a wonderful story. It brings us all to have an active imagination of life.
😌👍
Bruh 😂 what a loser
@@kinpump4696 for real
@@kinpump4696 The hell is wrong with you?
My subscription feed is slowly just turning into thumbnails of Simon
Simon is taking over TH-cam, one channel at a time.
😂
I live in Athens. So glad to see your story. :)
SIMON: The tree that owns itself
OTHER TREES: We own ourselves!
You can tell the other trees they legally don't. Unbelievable how we still have slavery in the 21st century😏
@@bobthegoat7090 Well according to tree law, trees pwn leg-maggots like you without opening a stomata!
Do we humans really "own" anything? Everything is really just borrowed for a limited time. Then we die and someone else gets all of "our" stuff.
I live in Athens, Georgia! I didn't know that The Tree that owns itself was so famous!! We locals love and cherish it
My question is, has anyone ever found or sent out and got help from putting a message in a bottle and throwing it out to sea?
I heard of a woman who found a message in a bottle sent by her deceased sibling. No idea if important messages were ever received in that way. I doubt it, because buzzfeed or daily mail would've done a viral video on it a long time ago if there had been.
I too would love to know some more about this subject! Simon, Danny, let's do this!
Not to my knowledge just a few very interesting found messages some with a long time from sent to found. One was written by a wwi soldier who is in the field forever found many years later given to his grand daughter l think.
Yes supposedly in a way. Lake superior is a lake but that's the only one I can think of off the top of my head. Lake superior and the kamloops crew. It was from one of the crew who found himself on a small body of land and I think it said something like " I am the last one alive. I want my parents to know what happened to me" the bodys of the crew were found on the island and wolves had eaten at the bodys or killed them. Lake superior never gives up her dead.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Kamloops
My boyfriend lived in the bachelor's lodge just down the hill from this tree. The street was cobbled. We'd spend all night sitting on his porch watching drunk students tumble like a bunch of Jacks and Jills. We never had to pay for cable since there was always something good to watch outside.
This is awesome! I live 20 minutes from this tree. It’s awesome to hear him talk about something local to me.
I bet the son of the tree that owns itself was named Jackson. When it was little, it was little kernel Jackson.
My favorite channel talking about a hometown landmark? Love it.
Here's the tree's statements to all the questions asked by Simon: I am Groot.
Watch your language!
@@SensSword I am Groot
😂😂😂
I think by now the tree has squatting rights. Whoever else initially “owned” the land.
If you like the bits when Simon breaks his cool facade then go watch Business Blaze! It's my new favourite channel!
Yeah he really lets his hair down. So to speak.
Trees have fricking life spans?!?! I really thought all trees grew until we cut/ damaged them in some way or they got sick. That's crazy can we get an episode on the lifespans of trees?
You thought trees were immortal?
Very much depends on the species of the tree, as well as the location in which it's growing and the nutrition and whatnot available to it (obviously.)
Some can go on for thousands of years, in 'perfect' situations, while others only flourish until they begin to produce offspring or some other trigger. Many of those that I know of that 'go' until they can reproduce may not die but may stop growing (at least in any healthy, 'proper' way,) and some begin to produce less healthy fruit/seeds/whatever.
Afaik some other triggers can be if they 'sense' other trees, but this gets into how tree 'communicate' and it can be a chemical 'signal' from a fungal network tied into the roots, or things like variations in sunlight from possibly competing trees etc. There are a surprisingly large number of ways various plants 'communicate' for many different reasons.
Anyway, just a quick bit of info off the top of my head so there is definitely better info available. Generally to get detailed, useful 'lifespans' you need to be talking about a specific family or other grouping.
Interesting topic, I think it could be a good video for the channel, deep enough it could be a huge topic, but I think they could find a good middle ground of informative, but not overly detailed/lengthy.
Laurel oaks used to be planted as street trees in much of Florida. They tend to mature in 50 years or less, and are usually dead before age 100. A few towns in Florida have lost lots of these planted trees due to old age...
@@markiangooley
Huh, what a cowinkydink (I use that when I feel coincidence doesn't quite fit.)
Born and raised (and lived large portions of my life) in Fla. myself, and I know what you mean. May be part of why I started thinking about this, now that I think back....
Having seen them, and other trees, dying at a (comparatively) 'young' age and then seeing/hearing about massive, 'ancient' Redwoods and the like.
Some tree's are connected some how and considered a single living mass one is believed to be 40,000y old. A tree called Methuselah is 7000y old. Search the name it's quite interesting.
Omfg! I'm from Athens! And I love the whole "the tree that owns itself" thing. I'm on board with the tree owning itself, personally.
It's a neat little thing. 😊
You can't live in Athens without knowing about this tree... As a former UGA student, this tree is a legend.
That tree is like: I am my own -man- tree
I am Groot
Just Some Bigfoot With Internet Access tree on brother
Like, I’m my own tree man.
I mean. Man, I’m a tree.
That tree knows how to earn that paper 😎💵
Maybe it's a money tree??
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10:23 When do you know a tree is born? When it first sprouts from its seed? When the seed falls off? When the seed is finished growing? Or when the seed is "conceived"?
I have many questions
I’m not from Athens, I’m from a county bordering it, but it’s a lovely tree.
I visited this tree on a field trip when I was in the third grade. It's located in the middle of an old part of town where there are still cobblestone streets.
Hooray! I always loved the tree when I lived there! Simon, you could also do a video on the double barrelled cannon in the same town.
_Trees should own themselves, just as humans own themselves_
Humans do not own themselves. Humans are owned by the country they live in.
@@StalkinU we can chose what country we live in, its moral to obey laws and just be a good person
@@luvely1062 You can not choose what country you live in. That very statement just shows how little you know of the world. It is not moral to obey laws at all. Laws are not universal. Laws do not make you a good person. If you own yourself why do you have to pay money to other people so they can throw it in the trash? It is legal to alter the gender of a 3 year old, even though all science screams its morally wrong and mentally damaging (proven fact.) Yet it is illegal to assist in suicide. Being a decent human being has nothing to do with laws.
@@StalkinU I was born in the US and I moved to Canada wtf you on about. I chose to move.
@@StalkinU and dude I'm not going to argue with a flat earther lol
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A great example of 'digging past feelings for facts.' (Nowadays, people won't even read the article at a FB post.) Folklore illuminating! Great job, TIFO!
From here awesome you covered it!
So if served an eviction notice, does the tree just pack up and leaf?
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Now do a story about the Treaty Oak tree in Austin TX. Also a landmark with an interesting history
Business blaze is the best channel btw.
All trees are created equally. Imagine protecting all the trees on planet earth......wooaahh
I haven’t harmed a tree as an adult.
t f All trees are equal. Just some trees are more equal than others.
Equally good as paper.
What an absolute Legend you have in Business Blaze... wait...wrong video....
Business Blaze is awesome!! Get on it, guys and girls. Simon's personality really shines through, and Danny is a brilliant script writer.
Pretty sure I'm subbed to all of Simon's channels (since way back around 2010 on TopTenz), so this may be a little bit of a biased view..
Ha! I just saw the thumbnail for this video next to the thumbnail for the video about Murphy's Law, and you can totally see they used the same still-shot of Simon. Nothing wrong with that. Was just one of those "Wait a seeeeecond!" moments.
As a Georgia girl,thank you for doing a video about our state,I don't think you ever have🤔😊
In Paris Texas, My Cousin used to own the house where the Dick Tree was located. And it is obvious from its shape where said tree got its name from.
C Ray Starling do u have pics
finally, some sweet Business Blaze promotion!
Woah, my hometown on this channel?! This ought to be good.
Clever story. I really enjoyed that thank you very much!
I can understand wishing that trees owned themselves to protect themselves from the whims of humans. At one time I had a home that had two huge trees in the front yard, a fir and a blue spruce. They shaded the house from the afternoon sun in summer and sheltered us from the winter storm winds. In the spring we watched birds make nests, and then the arrival of the hatchlings. When we moved I so wanted the new owner to see the beauty and usefulness of the trees, but a few weeks after the sale I drove by and there were only two stumps left. I went to my new home and cried. How could another person hate and devalue the trees I loved and enjoyed so much? Although it would seem the Banner was just creating an urban legend, I suspect that the story started with someone who did love that tree.
Just learned about this on facebook post. Well done Athens,Georgia.
Well, now I know how to protect the wild oak sapling I found as a seedling and have now nurtured for several years.
So, if the tree (or limbs thereof) fell and injured someone, would the tree be held responsible? Could it be sued? Nah, I'm thinking the city is liable for any dangers or injury since the tree is on city right-of-way and they are in charge of maintaining it. It would be an interesting court case though.
Tree should counter sue for humanities genocide of earth
If that tree became a stashing spot for say, drugs, could it be charged for possessions?
That tree should be sovereign territory so it could have it's own little army......
of ants
😂👍
I'll see myself out
Some trees are need of a lawyer... Someone call LegalEagle!
Yep that’s within walking distance of where I grew up. I had kind of heard about it but I didn’t realize it was a tourist attraction or that famous lol
Buiness Blaze Simon is best Simon
If reincarnation is a thing, I'm coming back as a tree. Trees have it figured out.
I remember that it was at the top if a hill with a steep cobblestone road. That was even more if a curiosity.
This is one of those things that just never comes to mind.
Woah look at Simon remembering that plug he's been saying he needed to do for ages 😂
I bet I saw this story in 'Ripley's Believe It or Not!' as a kid.
Please make a video about where the phrase “broad” daylight came from
very strange but interesting story. continu longl iife to the tree.
I checked the address and saw it on google maps and the tree across from the tree that owns its self on the other side of the road is clearly the older offspring. They are identical except the tree on the other side is bigger by x2. Problem is that tree does not own itself and can not move to that spot to do so if it acquired its siblings property by right of law. Its an interesting case however it will go no where in the end financially
When you realize even trees has more money than you.
Simon: I have another channel.
Me: is there anyone else on TH-cam?
Well, its a nice to think about isn't it?
Should a tree be allowed to own itself?
Only if it's over 18.
You callin that tree a liar?!
It kinda hurts my feelings that you would tell me the truth about this tree, but I’ll bounce back. Go Dawgs!
BRB, off to go and find another sapling of this tree, and file a affidavit of heir ship for the tree that owned itselfs property, and file a inheritance dispute...I'll take the cash value of the 1/2 of the plot of land, to be donated to Arbor Day Foundation, for i am the Lorax and i speak for the trees!
He actually gave the tree property rights to keep anyone from building next to him, so for three years he didn’t have to deal with neighbors or the noise of a new build
Huh, I live in Athens, GA I didnt know this xD
Never expected to see a case of self-owning from a plant.
George Foster Peabody... I think he was the guy who owned the spa at Warm Springs before is was converted to a physical therapy center.
Check out the Oak Tree of Baytown, Texas.
I wonder if when the old ladies who claim the tree owns itself get together to celebrate it. Do they also put on reinactments of various American Cival War battles?
Put me in coach.....I’m ready to play.....today......in CENTER FIEEEEEEELLLLLLD....... -John Fogerty
Had never heard of this. Fascinating. Thank you!!!
but... but... it's a native American! On its own reservation!!!!
Almost certainly the land given to the tree, was at one time taken from actual Native American humans.
The parent of the tree that owned itself was probably on Native American land before colonists came in.
if indigenous native tribes of the original, absorbed,or adopted, tribes of said native peoples that were originally present could petition the State of Georgia/ The U.S. to annex said flora's parcel of occupancy in question to the Native American nation's tribunal they could have success in giving an entity of the land its sole bearing of one's self. Talk to a Native American tribal law major , this is my extent of law that I propose to acknowledge.
My mom did tours of Athens and would have to drive a bus around that thing.
I am Groot.
And??
That's a fantastic point, but I really doubt many people will even begin to understand. And given how people generally treat nature I doubt many will put much stock in it. A real shame groot my man.
otakuman706 I am Groooot
HOLY CRAP just found out Karl Smallwood was one of the writers on this love his stuff.
Ah, but did the heir go to the first korn?🥁
You should do a video on the Athens Tennessee Revolt.
- shhhhhh!!!!! No one is supposed to know!!!!
Who killed you? We know it wasn’t a suicide.
Nicholas Lewis
My Mossad friends sneaked me out and left a body double 😈
Do you know if the tree paid any property tax?
It would have been a good idea to clarify that you were talking about Georgia the U.S. state rather than Georgia the country and Athens in Greece. Would have prevented some confusion.
God help the councilor or mayer who wants to build an interstellar bypass through that tree.
Good timing on my refresh lol 7 seconds after upload
Simon, hw many TH-cam channels do u hav?
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I remember visiting that tree when going to school at UGA, alas, it was just a tree
Did Simon have a little shaving accident on his right side? Or left side from the viewer?
If you are interested in looking at more curious trees that are tourist attractions, you might want to check out Greensburg, Indiana, USA, where there is a tree growing out of the roof of the county courthouse. No, it isn't planted in the ground and stretches up through the building, the entire tree is somehow above the clock in the clock tower.
www.decaturcounty.in.gov/history
Who is Danny? like his work.
Yeah Simon, we know about your stand up comedy channel already...;)
First also Simon just how many accounts do you have on TH-cam?
Pilfer Bean he created clones of himself to spread information to all of us
Wait.. so they crowd around it and decorate it during christmas and it's supposed birthday? Looks like the townfolk treat it like a normal tree too.
Why do i feel this is a re-upload with Simon promoting about one of his channel 🤔
Lucky for the tree that it was a white oak. Any black oak would've been condemned to slavery.
I wonder if Lincoln liberated any black oaks??
Go Dawgs!
GO DAWGS!
Could you did something to your dog or maybe a turtle? Are they considered sentient?
Most animals are sentient. Humans are the only sapient ones, though
People have left estates to pets already. There are some cats with fkin millions thanks to some rich folks dying.
Afaik its generally put into a trust and used to provide for said animal- paying for housing, food, etc, as well as anything specified in the related will.
... Because a cat totally needs millions of dollars more than homeless/orphans/etc. Smh...