{"id":3428,"date":"2023-09-12T19:13:30","date_gmt":"2023-09-12T16:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sadee.com.tr\/?p=3428"},"modified":"2023-09-12T19:55:07","modified_gmt":"2023-09-12T16:55:07","slug":"trees-book-john-fowles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sadee.com.tr\/en\/trees-book-john-fowles\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The Tree\u2019 Book- John Fowles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cTrees, unlike white sharks, are incapable of even defending themselves when attacked; Sometimes the thorny weapons they have are inert; and because of their size and immobility they cannot hide. They are the creatures that are most vulnerable to man, universally relegated by man to the depths of his sense of life, and therefore most susceptible to destruction. Their most important evolutionary defense, as in many social animals, birds and fish, is their abundance, that is, their capacity to reproduce, and the longevity of trees plays an important role in this regard. Perhaps it is this passive, patient nature of their self-preservation system that allows humans to somehow forgive trees, despite their age-old fears that they might be shelter for other creatures and supernatural beings, to see in their silent depths something also protective, like a mother, even like a womb. &#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yes, these sentences are from <strong>John Fowles&#8217;s book The Tree<\/strong>&#8230; I wanted to share this book with you, which affected me deeply. It shows a very impressive sense of empathy towards nature and is an original argument that I have come across in my life about the protection of nature&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The question underlying this book is; <strong>How do we conceive and form our relationship with the nonhuman world?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I will give you some more quotes from this book that impressed me and add my comments.;<\/p>\n<p>\u2018The important things for trees are soil, conditions and annual climate; But after these factors of chance comes <strong>human care.<\/strong>&#8216; We see what a holistic approach it really is\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Trees distort time, or rather create various times: here dense and sudden, there calm and tortuous; It is never interminable, mechanical, <strong>inevitably monotonous.<\/strong>\u2019 Monotony is not actually good, neither in our lives nor in nature\u2026<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;But then, when the war ended, my father decided that we should leave the green paradise and return to the gray prison.&#8217; I think the description in this sentence is very special, it reflects our world. In fact, when he says gray prison, he is talking about concrete cities and cities with a little greenery&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Just because two branches grow in different directions and paths does not mean that the deeper rules of the mechanism that provides their needs are not the same.&#8217; What an impressive comment he made about the branches, that is, about their needs being the same&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Evolution does not aim for trees to grow alone. They are far more social creatures than we are, and in their isolation they are no more unnatural than a sailor or a hermit on a desert island. Their society also creates or supports other societies consisting of plants, insects, birds, mammals, microorganisms.&#8217; In fact, every living thing is a part of evolution, and unfortunately, as people of ours who think that the world revolves around them because of our ego, we forget that we are a part of the wheel of evolution&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sadee.com.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Agaclar-John-Fowles2.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3432\" src=\"https:\/\/sadee.com.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Agaclar-John-Fowles2-640x370.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"370\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sadee.com.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Agaclar-John-Fowles2-640x370.webp 640w, https:\/\/sadee.com.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Agaclar-John-Fowles2-768x445.webp 768w, https:\/\/sadee.com.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Agaclar-John-Fowles2-980x567.webp 980w, https:\/\/sadee.com.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Agaclar-John-Fowles2-480x278.webp 480w, https:\/\/sadee.com.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Agaclar-John-Fowles2.webp 1033w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;What is truly at stake is not so much nature itself as our attitude towards it.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;One of the most profound things we have to learn is that nature inherently resists this. Nature is waiting to be seen in another way, in its individual present and from our individual present.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The expression &#8220;<strong>due to nature&#8221;<\/strong> actually defines all the values \u200b\u200band purity of a person regarding being human&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>We hope to have a life filled with the desire to truly understand nature and get to know it&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cTrees, unlike white sharks, are incapable of even defending themselves when attacked; Sometimes the thorny weapons they have are inert; and because of their size and immobility they cannot hide. They are the creatures that are most vulnerable to man, universally relegated by man to the depths of his sense of life, and therefore most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":3429,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sadee.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sadee.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sadee.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sadee.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sadee.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3428"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/sadee.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3445,"href":"https:\/\/sadee.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3428\/revisions\/3445"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sadee.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sadee.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sadee.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sadee.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}