In times of trouble and discouragement, I normally seek comfort under the foliage of trees, both real and imagined ones...
Trees by Cuban painter Tomás Sánchez (born 1948)—a few more here: instagram.com/p/CA90OLgH6Ae/
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I wonder about the trees.
Why do we wish to bear
Forever the noise of these
More than another noise
So close to our dwelling place?
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They are that that talks of going
But never gets away [...]
~ Robert Frost
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From Seamus Heaney's eight-sonnet sequence 'Clearances'
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'Weed' by Justin Quin (from 'Waves and Trees', 2006)
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'Submerged Forest'—from Fiona Benson's amazing debut collection, 'Bright Travellers' (2014)
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Trees by Dutch painter Simon Moulijn (1866–1948)
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'Fir Forest I' (1901) by Gustav Klimt
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'Morning in a Pine Forest' (1889) by Ivan Shishkin
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Eyvind Earle (1916–2000)
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'The forest is a before-me, a before-us [...] the forest reigns in the antecedent'
[La forêt est un avant-moi, un avant-nous [...] la forêt règne dans l'antécédent.]
~ Gaston Bachelard, 'La poétique de l'espace' (1957)
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