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How to Read a Tree

The Art of Manliness

CHAPTER

The Southern Eye

Trees are a good example of nature and nurture. So again, the tree doesn't know the world it's growing up in. So it has to respond to what it finds. The exact angle they start life will depend on their genes but we don't need to know that. And seen from the side, you see these horizontal branches on the south side, more vertical branches on the north side. It can look like a check - I nickname it the check effect or in this country we call it the tick effect. Another one too related to this is this idea of the southern eye. This is something you've discovered recently, that you kind of discovered it serendipitously when

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