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« Patricia's trees are much more sociable than she herself might have suspected. There are no individuals. There are not even separate species. All that is in the forest is the forest. Competition is not separable from the many flavours of cooperation. Trees don't fight any more than the leaves of the same tree fight. To believe that finally nature does not have so much blood on fangs and claws. First, these species at the base of the pyramid of life have no fangs or talons. And if the trees share their reserves, then every drop of red must float on an ocean of green. »
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The World Tree
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« It's easy to love people who take plants seriously. But Dennis, too, loves him. With his rare gestures, his abundant silence, he blurs the line between these two almost identical molecules, chlorophyll and hemoglobin. »
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The World Tree
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« She takes her trembling hand in the dark. It's so good to the touch, it's what a root must feel that discovers, after centuries, another root with which to embrace underground. There are a hundred thousand species of love, invented separately, ever more ingenious, and each of them generates new things. »
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The World Tree
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