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Imagination is a tree. It has the integrative virtues of a tree. It is root and boughs. It lives between earth and sky. It lives in the earth and the wind. The imagined tree imperceptibly becomes a cosmological tree, the tree which epitomises a universe, which makes a universe.

Gaston Bachelard

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Gaston Bachelard
Age: 78 †
Born: 1884
Born: June 27
Died: 1962
Died: October 16
G 巴什拉
G. Bachelard
Imagination
Virtues
Universe
Root
Lives
Sky
Makes
Roots
Integrative
Earth
Wind
Cosmological
Tree
Imperceptibly
Becomes
Boughs
Virtue
Imagined

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