Our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest. Th…

William James
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Our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest. The maple and the pine may whisper to each other with their leaves ... But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground, and the islands also hang together through the ocean's bottom. ✨ William James (1986). Essays in Psychical Research, p.374, Harvard University Press
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