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"Adventure is not outside you, it is within."   after Mary Ann Evans 
Seeing & Looking

The Tree: Quotes by novelist John Fowles

11/4/2020

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In the back yard of my childhood home, a giant chestnut tree spread its limbs.
From far above me, its chestnuts fell and landed with a solid clonk. These gems were colored a deep brown. I gathered and polished them, leaving them in piles inside our family home on Council Crest, a hill known as "Portland's rooftop garden." This heavenly Oregonian chestnut tree inspired me to climb its relatives, photograph its kin and talk to many others. This year, I read Trees, a book by photographer Frank Horvat with an essay by John Fowles (1926-2005). The beauty of the book inspired this selection of quotes by Fowles, the famous novelist. . .

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​"I confess my own love is far more of trees, more exactly of the complex internal landscapes they form when left to themselves."   

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​   "There is a spiritual corollary to the way we are currently de-foresting and de-naturing our planet. In the end what we must most defoliate and deprive is ourselves.
​   We might as soon start collecting up the world’s poetry, ever line and every copy, to burn it in a final pyre; and think we should lead richer and happier lives thereafter."
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"That two branches grow in different directions and ways does not mean they do not share a same mechanism of need, a deeper set of rules."  
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"Evolution did not intend trees to grow singly. Far more than ourselves they are social creatures, and no more natural as isolated specimens than man is as a marooned sailor." 

​               All quotes by John Fowles
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