you would think they would be really wise, just standing there, unable to move, whilst everything goes on around them. if they had minds, they would know so much. so many things about the world they would have seen through their bark eyes, unintelligible to anyone else, and solely because they had no choice but to stand still as the secrets of the world wrapped themselves around their branches.
"Some religions call life a dream, or a dreaming, but what if it is a memory? What if this new world isn’t new at all but a memory of a new world? What if we really do keep making the same mistakes again and again, never remembering the lessons to learn but never forgetting either that it had been different, that there was a pristine place? Perhaps the universe is a memory of our mistakes." — The Stone Gods, Jeanette Winterson (via helplesslyamazed)
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