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So I am going to come back now
to the environmental theme that

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runs through the book.

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I'm not going to read
you the title poem.

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I will read you this
small poem, which

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was remembering many
years ago, we all

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learned about the
butterfly effect, which

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says a butterfly flaps
its wings in Africa

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and there is an
enormous storm in China

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some months later
as a result. So that

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was what sits behind this.

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"No wind, no rain."

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"No wind, no rain, the tree just
fell, as a piece of fruit does.

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But no, not fruit.

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Not ripe.

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Not fell.

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It broke.

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It shattered.

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One cone's addition of resinous
cell-sap, one small-bodied bird

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arriving to tap for a beetle.

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It shattered.

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What word, what act was it
we thought did not matter?"

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And it actually did happen.

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A still sunny day and an
enormous old pine tree

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just came down hard for
no perceptible reason.