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Is there an echo in here?
Yes, I believe Treebeard was merely referring to the fact that Gandalf and the other Istari only appeared physically on Arda in the Third Age, whereas Ents have been around since the first. Also, one could say that Gandalf is technically of a mortal age, though he's still Maiar. The Ent, Fangorn, has seen more of the world than Gandalf.
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"What mortal feels not awe/Nor trembles at our name,
Hearing our fate-appointed power sublime/Fixed by the eternal law.
For old our office, and our fame,"
-Aeschylus, Song of the Furies
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