Around the World in 80 Trees Quotes

“One species, Salix babylonica – the weeping willow – got its name from a mistranslation of Psalm 137: ‘By the rivers of Babylon, There we sat down and wept, When we remembered Zion, Upon the willows in the midst of it, We hung our harps.”
― Jonathan Drori, Around the World in 80 Trees:

“Successive layers overlap; the resulting gloom deters less shade-tolerant species from growing and makes beech forests, which lack shrubs close to the group, strangely quiet.”
― Jonathan Drori, Around the World in 80 Trees

“The remaining jarrah [tree] is again in danger, this time from climate change, to which we all contribute and by which all cultures are threatened.”
― Jonathan Drori, Around the World in 80 Trees

“As propagandists have always known, our wish to believe the unbelievable knows no bounds.
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― Jonathan Drori, Around the World in 80 Trees