" The tallest redwoods are often slender, and so they aren't the largest ones. Even so, the most massive redwoods (the redwood titans) are among the worlds tallest trees anyway, and are more than thirty stories tall. Today, almost no tree of any species, anywhere, reach more than three hundred feet tall, except for the redwoods. The redwoods you can see in Muir Woods are nothing like the redwood titans that stand in the rain-forest valleys of the North Coast closer to Oregon. These are the dreadnoughts of tress, the blue whales of the plant kingdom. "

― Richard Preston