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July 2007 
out of the fire
Posted on Jul 15th, 2007
by 
Sara
Sara
"Maybe these trees can teach us something about ourselves. Marie and I and you, we're nothing. We're little snapshots in time, and we'll soon be gone. This grove has burned in huge fires during the past millennia. Redwoods don't die if they burn. A redwood can be burned to a blackened spar, and afterward it goes, 'Wooah,' and just grows back. Look at Kronos. It's been hammered. It's dying. And it's more beautiful than ever. These trees can teach us how we can live. We can be hammered and burned, and we can come back and be more beautiful as we grow."
~Steve Sillett in The Wild Trees. Photo of Sillett by Richard Preston.
~Steve Sillett in The Wild Trees. Photo of Sillett by Richard Preston.
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