"And the laughter! Always and forever, laughter." p. 34
"Another sproutday," I said. "I still feel like a sapling." p.38
Bongo: "Corvids don't give a flying tail feather about height." p.39
"Corvids" is a fancy name for birds like crows, ravens, jays, and magpies. Bongo says she's too classy for a label as common as "crow." p.39
Dioecious: separate male and female trees p. 17-18
"Evidence that trees have far more interesting lives than you sometimes give us credit for... "
"For a tree, communication is just as complicated and miraculous as it is for humans." p. 21
"Grace in acceptance." p. 30
"Hallows happen for many reasons...Hallows offer protection from the elements. A secure spot to sleep and to stash your belongings. They're a safe place. Hallows are proof that something bad can become something good with enough time and care and hope." p. 25
"In a mysterious dance of sunlight and sugar, water and wind and soil, we build Invisible bridges to connect to the world." p. 21
"I'm not just a tree, by the way. I'm a home. A community." p. 23
"It's a great gift indeed to love who you are." p. 41
"I wanted to drink in the stars." p. 181 "I wanted my roots to...
Journey farther, my branches to reach higher." p.74
Katherine Applegate, author 
"Lots of other trees, like me, are called "monoecious." That's just a fancy way of saying that on the same plant you'll find separate male and female flowers." p.18
"Making others feel safe is a fine way to spend your days." p. 26 "Morning was budding..." p. 38
"Nature is tricky. And people are... well, sorry, but most of you aren't that observant." p. 21
"Nature also adores a good secret." p.22
"Oceans of Oxygen for people to breath." p. 80 "Optimistic buttinsky." p. 86
Puzzling out magic
"Quiet contemplation about life and love and what it all meant." p. 182
Quercus rubra
Red oaks are one of the most common trees in North America. p. 5
Samar has the look of someone who has seen too much. Someone who wants the world to quiet itself." p.27
"There was plenty of sun for all of us, and we never wanted for water." p. 134
"Trees are the strong silent type...
Unless we're not." p. 86
"Visited regularly by the skunk kits who lived underneath the front porch of a nearby house." p. 26
We grow as we must grow, as our seeds decided long ago." p. 39 and p. 80
eXcept that this time, something changed." p.55
"You don't look a day over a hundred and fifty." p. 38
Zen-like quality of the illustrations by Charles Santoso
except, of course, that one word on p. 51...
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