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{{cleanup|This trope is not "significant tree", it's "tree that binds the world together". Examples of merely significant trees (including the ones from Abrahamic tradition) – or of things that aren't trees at all – need to be moved to more-appropriate pages.}}
 
[[File:Yggdrasil 1938.jpg|link=Norse Mythology|rightframe]]
 
A gargantuan tree fills the sky. Usually situated in [[Grim Up North|a breezy land of snow and ice]] or [[The Lost Woods|a sprawling forest]] or maybe even [[Ghibli Hills|a green, green field]]. It can be seen from miles away...
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The '''World Tree''' may exist ''between'' worlds, with its roots in one and its branches in another. It may even be a [[Pocket Dimension|Wood Between The Worlds]]. It's naturally a [[Genius Loci]]. See also [[The Tower]].
 
The health of the '''World Tree''' is [[Empathic Environment|tied to that]] of the [[Fisher King|world itself]]; injuring it may have [[The End of the World as We Know It|catastrophic consequences]].
 
{{noreallife|if our world had a World Tree, we would have found it by now. Or, [[Humans Are the Real Monsters|knowing humanity]], we would have chopped it down for the wood and doomed the planet in the process.}}