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“For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribes and families, in forests and groves. And even more I revere them when they stand alone. They are like lonely persons. Not like hermits who have stolen away out of some weakness, but like great, solitary men, like Beethoven and Nietzsche. In their highest boughs the world rustles, their roots rest in infinity; but they do not lose themselves there, they struggle with all the force of their lives for one thing only: to fulfil themselves according to their own laws, to build up their own form, to represent themselves. Nothing is holier, nothing is more exemplary than a beautiful, strong tree. When a tree is cut down and reveals its naked death-wound to the sun, one can read its whole history in the luminous, inscribed disk of its trunk: in the rings of its years, its scars, all the struggle, all the suffering, all the sickness, all the happiness and prosperity stand truly written, the narrow years and the luxurious years, the attacks withstood, the storms endured. And every young farmboy knows that the hardest and noblest wood has the narrowest rings, that high on the mountains and in continuing danger the most indestructible, the strongest, the ideal trees grow.
Herman Hesse, Bäume. Betrachtungen und Gedichte
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Beautifully written. I too, am a lover of the trees. Started with four acres and three large oaks in the woods. I was about seven. I climbed trees until after college. They are magnificent. Gorgeous tree you photographed and your gallery pictures of trees are splendid. I love what you wrote about the intricate life of these strong giants. Have a blessed night. Love Joni
Hello Joan, Thanks for the visit, your landscape and trees sound beautiful.
My pleasure I am a lover of trees and the way you described “the tree” touched my heart. Have a blessed weekend. Love Joni
Thanks Joni, Take care Hugs