“I believe one reason why humans find it hard to understand plants is because, in order to connect with something other than themselves and genuinely care about it, they need to interact with a face, an image that mirrors theirs as closely as possible.”
― The Island of Missing Trees
― The Island of Missing Trees
“An angry man was dominant. An angry woman, on the other hand, must have lost her grip on sanity.”
― The Lost Bookshop
― The Lost Bookshop
“because that is what nature did to death, it transformed abrupt endings into a thousand new beginnings.”
― The Island of Missing Trees
― The Island of Missing Trees
“People assume it’s a matter of personality, the difference between optimists and pessimists. But I believe it all comes down to an inability to forget. The greater your powers of retention, the slimmer your chances at optimism.”
― The Island of Missing Trees
― The Island of Missing Trees
“When you are in trouble or at your lowest point, and have no one in whom to confide, a hawthorn would be the right choice. There is a reason why hawthorns are home to fairies and known to protect pots of treasure. For wisdom, try a beech; for intelligence, a pine; for bravery, a rowan; for generosity, a hazel; for joy, a juniper; and for when you need to learn to let go of what you cannot control, a birch with its white-silver bark, peeling and shedding layers like old skin. Then again, if it's love you're after, or love you have lost, come to the fig, always the fig.”
― The Island of Missing Trees
― The Island of Missing Trees
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