Steven’s Reviews > The Cabaret of Plants: Forty Thousand Years of Plant Life and the Human Imagination > Status Update

Regarding the oak at the end of his garden: "Standing in its aqueous shade is like being inside some immense beached cetacean. Tawny owls, flocks of fieldfares, rising moons, the sentence I was mulling over as I wandered up to look at it, can vanish in a trice in its surf of flickering leaves."