Old Yet Lively

I find this story to be uplifting.

There is the sense of the remarkable resiliency of nature as if you can't keep a good thing down.

AP: Tree from 2,000-year-old seed is doing well

Radiocarbon dating of seed fragments clinging to its root, as well as other seeds found with it that didn't sprout, indicate they were about 2,000 years old—the oldest seed known to have been sprouted and grown.