Sublime

In 1584 Arthur Barlowe found the Virginian Indians ‘most gentle, loving and faithfull, void of all guile, and treason, and such as lived after the manner of the golden age’.

Unlike most of the village women who embark on careers with foreign men, Noelline is educated, has completed two years at the lycée run by the sugar refinery at Ankazobe. She writes a fair hand in French orthography, can use a computer, and speaks good French and Italian. Besides her intelligence, her undeniable energy, and a reputed genius for sex

Bella’s compassion expands to fill the world. Where there is barren soil, she plants a seed. Where there is destruction, she creates hope. Where darkness has spread, she breathes light.

The illusion is almost perfect in the forest, because trees are among the slowest-moving beings with which we share our world and changes in the natural forest are observable only over the course of many human generations.

they support other species underground and protect them from complete collapse to ensure that one species of tree doesn’t manage to dominate.