“Everything belonging to the tree is in this: its form and structure,its colours and chemical composition, its intercourse with the elements and with the stars, or are all present in a single whole.
The tree is no impression,no play of my imagination, no value depending on my mood; but it is bodied over against me and has to attain with me, and as I with it — only in a different way.
Let no attempt be made to sap the strength from the meaning of the relation: relation is mutual. - Consider the Tree philosopher Martin Buber on the discipline of not objectifying and the difficult art of seeing others as they are,not as they are to us.
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