The Tree Folk

You never saw a tree.

You have seen some particular kind of tree.

No - you have not seen that, even. All you have seen is some individual tree - the tall nut tree, let us say, that grew in the pasture, when you were a boy, and near the edge of the swamp where the frogs peeped in April.

That tall nut tree was a miraculous tree. (All trees are miraculous.) We know practically nothing about the essential element in trees, the life in them - the souls in them that make them what they are.

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