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Collin Welsch

Rejuvination

Balance

Circle of Life

Spring Renewal

Tree of Life Collection

Spring Tree with Pomegranates

"Tree of life"
excerpt from
Charles Darwin's
The Origin of
Species:

“ From the first
growth of the
tree, many a
limb and branch
has decayed and
dropped off; and
these fallen
branches of
various sizes
may represent
those whole
orders, families,
and genera
which have now
no living
representatives,
and which are
known to us
only in a fossil
state. As we here
and there see a
thin, straggling
branch
springing from a
fork low down in
a tree, and
which by some
chance has been
favoured and is
still alive on its
summit, so we
occasionally see
an animal like
the
Ornithorhynchus
or Lepidosiren,
which in some
small degree
connects by its
affinities two
large branches
of life, and which
has apparently
been saved from
fatal competition
by having
inhabited a
protected
station. As buds
give rise by
growth to fresh
buds, and these,
if vigorous,
branch out and
overtop on all
sides many a
feebler branch,
so by generation
I believe it has
been with the
great Tree of
Life, which fills
with its dead
and broken
branches the
crust of the
earth, and covers
the surface with
its ever-
branching and
beautiful
ramifications. ”

Darwin, C.
(1872), pp. 170-
171. The Origin
of Species.
Sixth Edition.
The Modern
Library, New
York.