Trees
Anyone who has planted a tree knows that what grows is not merely an object in space, but also a mark in time.
Goenawan Mohamad
March 3, 2020
HOW many centuries are gathered in the virgin forest around Lake Tamblingan? Thousands of trees, ancient, young, crowd together, interweaving with the bushes, tendrils and vines; the dense foliage thickened by ferns that have hidden the path since time immemorial.
I was walking there that evening, along the lake in the hills of north Bali, forging through the undergrowth and losing a sense of distance in a solitude disturbed only by the sou
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