“We feel much sorrow for you, the elm tree had said. But what kind of sorrow—a real and sincere sorrow, or the superficial and pedantic sorrow of the immortal for a frail and flickering creature that was about to die?”

— Clifford D. Simak , book All Flesh is Grass

Source: All Flesh is Grass (1965), Chapter 24 (p. 247)

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American writer, journalist 1904–1988

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