2014 December 2 - La Vallombreuse's Advent calendar.

“When we have learned how to listen to trees, then the brevity and the quickness and the childlike hastiness of our thoughts achieve an incomparable joy … Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth.”
Hermann Hesse - Bäume: Betrachtungen und Gedichte [Trees: Reflections and Poems]