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by masklinn 3867 days ago
> New trees can eventually grow on a barren island as well...

Not necessarily (with no trees, the island is at the mercy of erosion) save for geological-scale "eventually". And that's not the same, the tree is lost and you need a new tree to take its place, that's not what happens to water unless you dissociate it.