From: "British Trees", edited by Archi Miles, 0 09 186788 6, a Felix
Dennis Book, a Ted Smart Publication, 1999.
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"... no writer could ever match the poetry expressed in the
form of a single tree, for it speaks form its roots, through the fibres of
its stem, the shape of the trunk, the turn and spread of the branches, the
twisting and reaching of the twigs. A tree speaks. It speaks of a hundred
summers and a hundred winters. of storms and droughts and floods and snows,
of plague and gales, of rocks and soils and hidden waters, of air and birds
and pollinating insects. The whole of the message is contained in the way it
has grown, precisely, to make use of what its environment has provided. It
states in essence: "Here I am, and where I am is what I am." The way of the
saying can only be purely truthful. The natural laws make it impossible to
lie. If a tree appears to be beautiful it is because beauty is truth and
truth is beauty."
John Wyatt, 1998, from the book "Reflections" on the Lake District.
from: "British Trees", edited by Archi Miles, 0 09 186788 6, a Felix Dennis
Book, a Ted Smart Publication, 1999
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