01/10/2026
On a cosmic scale:
Carbon is common.
Diamonds are not especially rare.
Processed biological materials like wood are extremely rare.
Diamonds form naturally in planetary mantles, high-pressure environments, and meteor impacts.
They don’t require life.
They just require pressure, carbon, and time.
Wood, on the other hand, requires all of this at once:
a stable star
a rocky planet in the habitable zone
liquid water
photosynthesis
an oxygen-rich atmosphere
multicellular life
vascular plants
millions of years of ecological continuity
That stack is orders of magnitude rarer than the conditions needed for diamond formation.
And that’s not even in the top three reasons I specialize in wood.
Glitter is cool.
Chatoyance is divine.
