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I never knew how soothing trees are - many trees and patches of open sunlight and tree presences it is almost like having another being.

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The young man, perched insecurely in the slen­der branches, rocked till he felt slightly drunk, reached down the boughs, where the scarlet beady cherr...more

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There was the loud noise of water, as ever, something eternal and maddening in its sound, like the sound of Time itself, rustling and rushing and wave...more

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From the old wood came an ancient melancholy, somehow soothing to her, better than the harsh insentience of the outer world. She liked the inwardness ...more

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It was very still. The tree was tall and straggling. It had thrown its briers over a hawthorn-bush, and its long streamers trailed thick, right down t...more

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That’s the place to get to—nowhere. One wants to wander away from the world’s somewheres, into our own nowhere.

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Every man who is acutely alive is acutely wrestling his own soul.