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« And there's one thing about apple seeds: they're unpredictable. So are their offspring. Stable parents give birth to an uncontrollable child. The sweet can turn sour, or bitter to creamy. The only way to preserve the taste of a variety is to graft a cutting onto new roots. Olivia Vandergriff would be very surprised to learn that each apple with a name comes from the same original tree. The Jonathan, the McIntosh, the Empire: so many strokes of luck to the great roulette of the malus species. »
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The World Tree
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« The older the word, the more likely it is to be both useful and true. »
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The World Tree |
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The World Tree
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« That's what's scary about men: just put them together with a few simple machines, and they lift the world up to you. »
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The World Tree
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