[Gollum] 280: What kind of tree are you... “I want to live like a
tree
” “How long does it take for a tree to be about a span in diameter? It takes at least 500 years for a boxwood to have a diameter of that extent. During such a slow growth, the boxwood is hardened and hardened to have a hardness that no other tree can match, and this hardness is valuable and is used as an excellent material for making seals." -Of
the many heroes in the
boxwood
movie'Avengers' series, who is your favorite?
There are many people who have this and that charm, but if you want to have a figure among them, I am definitely Groot.
"I'm Groot, I'm Groot," a villager who expresses all situations and emotions with one line.
When I looked up, it was called the'Flora Colossus' race and it was also said to be a tree-like creature... Anyway, the tree talks, moves, becomes a companion and fights together, so it's very cute.
They live like a Lululala tree and sometimes help fight evil hordes, and in any situation, answer the same answer-I'm Groot-and the answer is over!
I mean.
There is no story of Groot in the book I am going to introduce today, but there are a lot of trees that are not far from Groot.
Published in 2001, and 20 years later, a special edition was released this year to commemorate the sale of 100,000 copies. It is <I Want to Live Like a Tree> by Woo Jong-young, a tree doctor.
A tree doctor is literally a doctor who treats trees.
Woo Jong-young, the author of the book, is a tree doctor who sets up a tree hospital to care for and treat sick trees.
Healing and caring for trees, learning life, and living together with trees, is a story of a tree.
All twenty-five trees appear in the book.
They also confess the wisdom of life learned from trees.
“It is said that one alder tree could be seen every 5 ri anywhere in the country. Now, there are milestones everywhere on the road wherever I go, but in the old days when two bridges were the main means of transportation, whether far or near, I went through three alder trees along the road. How many miles have you come' I used to guess... Whenever I see an alder tree, I think it's like a comma telling me to take a rest at the corner of the road... That's why. I often talk about it."
-Alder Tree
"A legend about a birch tree from ancient times. If you carefully peel off the white bark of a birch tree and write an unstained love letter on it, love will come true. The more unachievable love, the more a letter made from birch tree. If you look at the bark of a birch, you can understand why the legend was born. Unlike the appearance, the bark of a birch tree is so soft and soft that you wonder how to withstand the strong cold that seems to be burning flesh... Holding a swelling heart, I told my daughter the legend of the birch, and she suddenly laughed."
-Birch
"Every time I deal with a chestnut tree that grows so big, I think of a three-year-old kid who doesn't suit me. He's overwhelmed, stubborn, full of hatred in every thing he does, and nevertheless makes people's hearts happy with one smile "A three-year-old child who makes a child who makes it. He would be like that. Unlike its enormous and cool appearance, he ate chestnut trees because he did not do anything."
-Yew tree, ivy tree, pine tree, black oak tree, camellia tree, grasshopper tree, zelkova tree, wisteria, ginger tree, quince tree, juniper tree, lilac, bamboo, hornbeam tree, ginkgo tree, sawijil bread, forsythia from
chestnut
books , Fir tree, albizia julibrissin, pictorial tree... If you don't know the name, if you look at the pictures and descriptions included with it, there are many things that you want to see.
I also remember the memories of that tree that I forgot.
For example, a magnolia... There was a magnolia at the entrance to the college building of my university. Strangely, unlike other magnolias, the magnolia blossomed in mid-February instead of March to April.
That is why the nickname attached to it is'Crazy Magnolia'.
I finished early and I lost quickly.
It turned out that the place where the magnolia stood was the place where the water vapor was emanated when the building was heated, so the temperature was higher than the surroundings.
I haven't been to school a lot since graduation, so now I'm not sure if the magnolia still announces the crazy early spring or disappears.
Most of the people didn't even reach the news when they reminisce about Magnolia.
"Isn't it the same way he cares for the magnolia tree he likes. He wants the magnolia tree to live energetically even when the moment he cannot take care of. He wants to overcome his ordeal and produce pretty flowers... Like a horse, the magnolia tree still keeps the Cheonnipo Arboretum even after 20 years after he left, and every April, the white and fine flowers bloom without fail. He left, but his heart remains."
-When I read the story of the tree that the
magnolia
writer unleashes one by one, I thought that each one resembles those who stayed around me for a while and who have lost contact now.
I said it was a tree story, but it is also a story of people.
It is often said that it is a'tree', but seeing so many trees with different characteristics, "I want to live like a tree" may actually be a word like "I want to live like those people."
"No one knows, but the boxwood grows slowly for a long time and is used as a solid seal with its value in the end... I applaud those who have walked a path that no one knows about for a long time. Even if they are not recognized right now, they want to go. How great and wonderful it is to go on the road silently and I think about it. I wonder if there is something in me that I have been trying to do so slowly after a long time."
-Boxed Mok
*I received permission to read aloud from publisher Maven.
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