She had so deep a kinship with the trees, so intuitive a sympathy with leaf and flower, that it seemed as if the blood in her veins was not slow-moving human blood, but volatile sap.

Mary Webb
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This is a quote by Emily Dickinson, who wrote that her mother “had so deep a kinship with the trees, so intuitive a sympathy with leaf and flower, that it seemed as if the blood in her veins was not slow-moving human blood, but volatile sap.” In this quote, Dickinson describes her mother as being as connected to the world around her as she is.

Source: Gone To Earth

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