Thursday 12 February 2009

Transformation

Mosses at Merryvale

The kingdom of plants can easily be thought of as the nearest neighbour of the kingdom of death. Perhaps the mysteries of transformation and the enigmas of life which so torment us are concentrated in the green of the earth, among the trees in graveyards and the flowering shoots springing from their beds.

Boris Paskernak: Doctor Zhivago

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