human
Generate a brief description of a depressing scene outside the wilderness with a giant maple tree, a stream, and a cleft trunk.
assistant
Canted precariously to one side, the giant maple tree here seems to be hanging on by just a few roots. Its trunk, cleft nearly in two by a lightning strike, is dry and charred. Yet high above your head its branches are bursting with leaves and seed-pods litter the ground in all directions. A small stream flows over speckled blue granite and plunges down the hill.