(41) THE TREES ...
... are the most beautiful, the most immediate of analogies.
[...] to rise like them, from the multiple roots to the unity of the trunk and from the unity of the trunk to the diversity of the branches stretched to all directions in space.
Jean Prieur, Les Témoins de l'Invisible (Testimonies of the Invisible - translated from Portuguese).
A magnificent Purple European Beech (Fagus sylvatica Atropunicea, Fagaceae family) in the Leiden Hortus Botanicus - the Netherlands.
The trunk and the main branches had been all bandaged up in order to control their perspiration, because of a root's disease.
[Portuguese post on Feb 7th, 2008]
Category: THE TREE
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Tags: Image Tree Trunk Purple_European_Beech Fagus_sylvatica Atropunicea Fagaceae Leiden Hortus_Botanicus The_Netherlands Jean_Prieur
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