Sublime

em florestas de faias intocadas: as árvores se sincronizam de tal forma que todas têm o mesmo rendimento, o que é curioso, pois cada faia ocupa um lugar único.

a grossura e a estabilidade de um tronco são determinadas pelos contratempos que sofre.

Douglas Pavlicek works a clear-cut as big as downtown Eugene, saying goodbye to his plants as he tucks each one in. Hang on. Only ten or twenty decades. Child’s play, for you guys. You just have to outlast us. Then no one will be left to fuck you over.

She’d just been standing quiet and still. A specialty of trees.

Cede authority

who sprang up from the ground itself with gnarled hands and woody skin and roots deep enough to tap into her own hidden well.