For the past three years we have volunteered at Source of Light Ministries in Madison, GA. One of my duties there has been to collect the fallen leaves and build a mountain. When we return there after the Passion Play season, the mountain has disappeared and I begin to build a new one. I have often wondered how many leaves it takes to make such a mountain.
Today, Karen and I drove to the VA in Fayetteville. As we drove through the rural countryside, we remarked how green it was, how many trees there were and how many leaves there must be on each tree. That piqued my curiosity, and I took to Google to see if there was some estimate somewhere of how many trees and how many leaves there are in the world. According to one site; NPR estimates there are 400 Trillion (400,000,000,000) trees on earth with an average of 3.2 million (3,200,000) leaves per tree for an estimated total of 1.28 x 10 to the 18th power (1,280,000,000,000,000,000) or 1 quintrillion, two hundred and eighty quadrillion leaves.
That's a LOT of leaves........makes today's Lottery drawing look like chump change.
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