Quote 1: "This was the tree, and it seemed to me standing there to resemble those men, the giants of your childhood, whom you encounter years later and find that they are not merely smaller in relation to your growth, but that they are...shrunken by age....[for] the old giants have become pigmies while you were looking the other way." Chapter 1, pg. 6 Quote 2: "Nothing endures, not a tree, not love, not even a death by …showed first 75 words of 1980 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1980 total…reservations, letting its rocklike facts sift through and be accepted only a little at a time, only as much as he could assimilate without a sense of chaos and loss. No one else I have ever met could do this....When [others] began to feel that there was this overwhelmingly hostile thing in the world with them, then the simplicity and unity of their characters broke and they were not the same again." Chapter 13, pg. 194