This was posted earlier by one of my favorite bloggers. It is an amazing meditation on the magic of trees.
Of all the flora upon the earth, none seem quite so human as trees. Endlessly varied, not only by species, but individually, they strive to find nourishment, to grow and produce offspring. They struggle to weather the storms of life, and yet when they sense their time has come, they surrender to the earth. They are persistent and steadfast, yet patient and peaceful. Perhaps that’s why they live so much longer than we do.
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“Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky.” ~Khalil Gibran
“Listen to the trees as they sway in the wind…and their roots give names to all things. Their language has been lost. But not the gestures.” ~Vera Nazarian
“Of all the trees we could’ve hit, we had to get one that hits back.” ~J.K. Rowling
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