
First Draft - James Longenbach (New Edit)
First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing
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Do You Know It Takes a Million Seeds to Make One Tree?
In a poem by Robert Frost, the author talks about replicating yourself. He says that it takes a million seeds to make one tree and we can't replicate ourselves. The book "Trees" is an amazing account of how trees grow and reproduce themselves. It seemed like a beautiful and threatening mirror for human experience, he writes.
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