“It reminds me of tree blindness,” she pondered. “The Unmapping.” “Tree blindness?” “You know how most people can’t tell one tree from another? And even when you learn about things like maple and oak, it’s still difficult, especially in winter when there are no leaves. Any given tree is obviously extremely different from any other tree, like with its bark pattern and branches and height and everything. And yet we see one tree and to most people, it’s just a tree. Maybe trees feel the same way about humans. About houses. One house is just like another house. What’s the difference?”
