Monday, August 4, 2014

twisting tree

Plants are the young of the world, vessels of health and vigor; but they grope ever upward towards consciousness; the trees are imperfect men, and seem to bemoan their imprisonment, rooted in the ground.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American Poet, Lecturer and Essayist.

Above: A twisting tree found on Hump Mountain in the Roan Highlands.
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