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« You can fix the hour hand, Mimi notes, without taking your eyes off it during a whole clock cycle, and not once do you see it moving. »
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« When the lateral roots of two Douglas firs meet underground, they merge. Through these self-grafted knots, the two trees combine their vascular systems to make one. Woven together underground by thousands and thousands of kilometres of living fungal threads, the trees feed and heal each other, protect the lives of the young and the sick, gather their resources into a common metabolic pool... »
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« Fruit trees manipulate us to spread their seeds, and it is the ripening fruits that have given us access to the vision in color. By teaching us how to find their bait, the trees taught us to see that the sky is blue. Our brains evolved to decipher the forest. We have been shaped and shaped by forests for much longer than we are Homo sapiens. »
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The World Tree
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