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    Trees serve as homes for visiting devas who do not manifest in earthly bodies, but live in the fibers of the trunks and larger branches of the trees, feed from the leaves and communicate through the tree itself.  Some are permanently stationed as guardians of sacred places. Hindu Deva Shastra, verse 117 ~~~~~ Because they are primeval, because they outlive us, because they are fixed, trees seem to emanate a sense of permanence.  And though rooted in earth, they seem to touch the sky. For these reasons it is natural to feel we might learn wisdom from them, to haunt about them with the idea that if we could only read their silent riddle rightly we should learn some secret vital to our own lives; or even, more specifically, some secret vital to our real, our lasting and spiritual existence.Kim Taplin,  Tongues in Trees, 1989, p. 14.

    Trees serve as homes for visiting devas
    who do not manifest in earthly bodies,
    but live in the fibers of the trunks
    and larger branches of the trees, 
    feed from the leaves
    and communicate through the tree itself. 
    Some are permanently stationed
    as guardians of sacred places.

    Hindu Deva Shastra, verse 117

    ~~~~~

    Because they are primeval,
    because they outlive us,
    because they are fixed,
    trees seem to emanate a sense of permanence. 
    And though rooted in earth,
    they seem to touch the sky.
    For these reasons it is natural to feel
    we might learn wisdom from them,
    to haunt about them
    with the idea that if we could only
    read their silent riddle rightly
    we should learn some secret
    vital to our own lives;
    or even, more specifically,
    some secret
    vital to our real, our lasting and spiritual existence.

    Kim Taplin,  Tongues in Trees, 1989, p. 14.

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