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Leaving A Mark

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The Future Library by Katie Patterson

Artist Katie Patterson is growing a forest in Oslo, Norway. The trees will be harvested and used to print all the manuscripts as an anthology in 2114. Every year for a hundred years an author is invited to write something for the library. Nobody will read the words until the forest has grown.

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