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« All day she works in the woods, the teeming back of Augustats, the tick skull, the mouth filled with leaf residue, the pollen eyes, the face draped in cobwebs, the arms of sumac bracelets, the knees cut by slag, the nose lined with spores, the back of the thighs stung in braille by the wasps, and the heart as joyful as the day. »
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« Billions of years ago, a single outlier cell capable of duplicating itself learned to transform a sterile ball of toxic gases and volcanic slag into this populated garden. And everything you hope for, everything you dread, everything you love has become possible. »
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Richard POWERS
The World Tree |
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The World Tree
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« We cross the Milky Way together, trees and men. `...` Every walk with nature, you get much more than you're looking for. The most direct access to the universe is a wild forest. »
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Richard POWERS
The World Tree |
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The World Tree
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