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Torchlight

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3. "Evil flourishes in soil where no trees grow."

Reply to cbabe (Original post)

Tue Sep 30, 2025, 02:27 PM

Sep 30

I don’t know the source, perhaps a quote from a great mind, or just something a teacher once said. Either way, it has stayed with me since junior high, echoing the pastoral parables of Tolkien and Lewis that I loved so much.

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The 2025 'Tree of the Year' Is a Scottish Ash Growing in the Middle of Glasgow [View all] cbabe Sep 30 OP

Beautiful, old tree. Cherished and not chopped down for awful ballroom addition. sinkingfeeling Sep 30 #1

I like this idea of a tree of the year. progressoid Sep 30 #2

"Evil flourishes in soil where no trees grow." Torchlight Sep 30 #3