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The tree, Herman Hesse explains in The Wayfarer, represents itself. To be a tree is to be no different from being. Its position and presence are defined there, in sunny mornings, rainy afternoons, warm nights or freezing dawns, in the valleys, on the mountain slopes, on the banks of rivers, in the face of droughts, under storms or besieged by the fires in which so many nests burn.

A dignified form of being that, without moving from its place, contains infinite movements. Always in the same place, it adapts to the environment through its subterranean and aerial connections, the roots seek …