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| “He doesn’t need any money; all he needs is his rucksack with those little plastic bags of dried food and a good pair of shoes and off he goes and enjoys the privileges of a millionaire in surroundings like this.” - Jack Kerouac |
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| I've only seen these trees along
the coast in New Zealand and Australia. Aussies probably look at a tree like this and think: "Big deal, another tree." I look at its distinctive form and think: "Cool, I've never seen a tree like that." It's about unique versus common. In the US we don't have stylish, symmetrical pine trees where the needles point skyward, so to me it's a novelty. In fact it's not really a conifer (pine) at all, but don't ask me the details. Here we see them as tiny potted Christmas trees when they're small and needles look droopy, quite different from a mature tree. Only once have I seen a Norfolk Pine planted locally and it's gone now so I speculate it didn't make it through our cold winter. |
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