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they wear no longer the shape of trees, and yet they live, and cannot be conquered by winter, by their slope, nor by time, but boldly put forth into their native air their whitish shoots.

Gustave Doré, from Voyage aux Pyrénées (A tour through the Pyrenees), by Hippolyte Taine, Paris, 1873.

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