Mother Tongue Quotes

“part together. This struck me as important. But 2 percent is always alive. From a certain microbiological standpoint, trees are immortal. I think history is like this. We cannot capture much more than the trees do of what is living about history. The rest is solid cortex. It stands and is of use to the living part.”
― Wallis Wilde-Menozzi, Mother Tongue: An American Life in Italy