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Elder Berry
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Date: December 12, 2018 03:25PM
This was wonderful to read. Great post.
"Nothing is holier, nothing is more exemplary than a beautiful, strong tree. When a tree is cut down and reveals its naked death-wound to the sun, one can read its whole history in the luminous, inscribed disk of its trunk: in the rings of its years, its scars, all the struggle, all the suffering, all the sickness, all the happiness and prosperity stand truly written, the narrow years and the luxurious years, the attacks withstood, the storms endured. And every young farmboy knows that the hardest and noblest wood has the narrowest rings, that high on the mountains and in continuing danger the most indestructible, the strongest, the ideal trees grow."~Hermann Hesse’s Trees: Reflections and Poems
https://gerryco23.wordpress.com/2013/10/12/requiem-for-a-tree-a-luminous-emptiness/Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/12/2018 03:25PM by Elder Berry.