Valley of Trees Caleb's In the Woods Contest

I looked everywhere to find some woods I asked a friend to show me if he could There once was a time there were trees all around Although we kept looking there were none to be found I've seen pictures of forests that used to cover the earth Sadly they all vanished long before the day of my birth Way back in the past I'm told the world was pristine Trees, forests and animals, lakes that would gleam They just watched, the warnings they didn't heed The planet decimated, people just watched it bleed So off to a museum called the valley of the trees Artificial replicas, real ones destroyed by our disease I'm forced to travel to the woods in my mind Although I've searched long and hard, only pretend can I find