Alan Weisman Quotes

IT IS STARTLING To Think That All Europe Once Looked Like This Puszcza. To Enter It Is To Realize That Most Of Us Were Bred To A Pale Copy Of What Nature Intended. Seeing Elders With Trunks Seven Feet Wide, Or Walking Through Stands Of The Tallest Trees Here - Gigantic Norway Spruce, Shaggy As Methuselah - Should Seem As Exotic As The Amazon Or Antarctica To Someone Raised Among The Comparatively Puny, Second-growth Woodlands Found Throughout The Northern Hemisphere. Instead, What's Astonishing Is How Primally Familiar It Feels. And, On Some Cellular Level, How Complete.

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