Each piece of wood is an ingot of sunlight, a store of life-giving heat.
David George Haskell
Where these words come from
- 95% sureThese words were traced back to where they first appeared. That source is listed below.
- Eleven Ways of Smelling a Tree (2020); Exact wording and attribution checked. A metaphor grounded in photosynthesis and the energy stored in wood.
- Eleven Ways of Smelling a Tree (2020)
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