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' He ( Frodo) felt a delight in wood and the touch of it, neither as forester nor as carpenter; it was the delight of the living tree itself' ( 1, 455).

“History is the study of power and how it has been used for destructive or beneficent ends” (p. 43).

“We can become too accustomed to life; we tend to take for granted leaves on the trees, the color of the sky, the face of someone we love, worst of all, ourselves, prisoners in the world of habit which dulls and petrified” (p. 36).