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“What an astonishing thing a book is… one glance at it & you’re inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly & silently inside your head, directly to you.
Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. #Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.”
- Carl Sagan
Incidentally, Anthony Doerr’s magnificent novel, Cloud Cuckoo Land, illustrates what Sagan describes (above) beautifully. /2
@Sheril I had no idea about the interconnectivity of trees until reading that book.