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'One day he walked into a coin dealer's shop and bought an 1896-S Barber quarter for twelve dollars. It is one of the rarer American quarters. Apparently, the dealer hadn't examined the coin closely, and hadn't noticed a somewhat faint S on the back of the quarter below the eagle. The S is what makes the coin rare. A few days later, Michael sold the quarter to another dealer for seven hundred dollars.'

'Charlotte was happy with her new knives, and Roscoe eventually got over it and he and Michael have remained on friendly terms. (Roscoe and Charlotte Tanner divorced several years later. She kept the knives.)' Hahaha, this is hilarious!

'Recognizing that shiitakes might be worth a lot of money in this country, he studied Asian mushroom-growing practices and developed a way to farm shiitakes and other wild, rare mushrooms commercially. He founded a company called Northwest Mycological Consultants, and he basically created the market in the United States for exotic farmed mushrooms.' I wonder how true this is.

'Lowman had spent much of her career trying to observe the fall of a leaf.' Simply amazing.

' 'When I first started out climbing trees, Ihad no idea that they held fifty percent of the life on the planet,' Lowman said to me. 'We had no clue that the forest canopy is this amazing hot spot for biodiversity.' ' I love the perspective of the author here as he or she reflects on a conversation he or she had with this character Lowman he or she has just introduced and the serendipity within the author's quotes.

'The world's tallest living thing was out there, somewhere, perhaps hidden in a lost valley. He could feel it.... He could just feel it out there, somewhere. He wondered if he could find it.' Really just found this quote rather interesting and slightly inspiring. Made me wonder, what do I feel, for what do I aspire?

'Within days, Melville Bell Grosvenor and a team of executives from the National Geographic Society flew to Northern California. They were blown away when they saw the tree, and judging from the article that Grosvenor himself wrote in National Geographic it seems that his first sight of the world's tallest tree was one of the most exciting moments of his life.' Man, I wonder what it would be like to feel like that.

"Many of the trees are actually fairy rings coming out of old roots, and the roots may be up to thousands of years old. The fairy rings on timber lands are getting cut down repeatedly, and the old root masses under them may be fading away and losing strength, or maybe not. They may be fine-no one knows." Provides kind of a mystical vibe, I love hearing about things we as humans still haven't figured out.

"The forest canopies of the earth are believed to hold roughly half of all species in nature. No one knows, exactly, because no one has a clear idea of how many species actually exist on the earth. There may be ten million different species on the earth, or a hundred million species." Holy moly! I had no idea there might be that many species just in trees!!

"The only thing he could hear was the sound of running water. He dreaded hearing a scream followed by a meaty thud." This quote really drew me in, I felt like I could relate to the description.