> 100 years is the blink of an eye for a tree That's a very slow blink. Being generous and for easy math, let's say the tree lives 100,000 years. 100 years i

> 100 years is the blink of an eye for a tree That's a very slow blink. Being generous and for easy math, let's say the tree lives 100,000 years. 100 years is 1/1000th of the lifetime, .001. Generally the blink of an eye is in reference to human time scales. Again, let's be generous and say a blink takes an entire second, and a human lives 72 years. 1 / (72 * 365 * 24 * 60 * 60) = .0000000004 Many orders of magnitude off from the blink of an eye.