Thread: Trees Are Ugly
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Old 17-Feb-2007   #7
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Originally Posted by FlyBri
"Trees in nature for the most part are ugly. It's not until you get to tree line and deadwood, or swamps with over size buttressed trees, or windswept coastlines that you start to see trees like those we try and emulate in our bonsai. Who wants to make a tree like a lollipop[?] Thats what most of the trees in the park look like."

-- bonsaial1 (AKA Al Keppler), bonsaiTALK, February 2007.
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nature is perfect

our vision is imperfect

we may never learn


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