Can you remember back before there were Trees? When there was nothing but fungus, 30 feet high. Plants didn't know how to grow woody stems yet, and there we were. Or were we there? I remember when the Trees first Grew. And the Trees would not Rot. The fungus hadn't figured out how to digest Lignin yet, So for millions of years, trees fell, and slept, and went underground, and compacted into Coal. And I slept.