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?
[...]
They are that that talks of going
But never gets away [...]
~ Robert Frost
Conversation
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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Birch forest by Andrei Nikolaevich Schilder (1861–1919)
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‘The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.’
William Blake
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Grandfather Tree - Buangor, Victoria, Australia - a 700-year-old eucalypt with a large, open canopy arching over the land below.
Grandfather Tree that is the companion of the Birthing tree or Grandmother tree. #voice
Photo: Justin McManus
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