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"Trees have lasting thoughts, quiet, as they have a life longer than our.
They are wiser than us till we don't listen them. But when we would learn to listen trees, thus just the brevity, the quickness and the childish precipitation of our thoughts takes an incomparable joy.
Who learned listening trees doesn't desire anymore to be a tree. She or he doesn't desire anything else than being what he or she is.

That is the fatherland.
That is happiness.
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Througt their leafy branch the world rustles, their roots dip in the Infinite, although they don't loose their selves into it. At the contrary they pursue with all their vital strengthen a sole aim: to realize the innate law they bring, to bear their shape to perfection, to represent and perform their selves. Nothing is more sacred and exemplary than a beautiful and strong tree...."

(H.Hesse)

[The Tree, Villa Ghigi, Bologna]