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"This
plant is like a human being. It has its skin, the bark; the roots
are its head and its hair; it has its distinctive shape and markings
and its senses and its sensitivity in the trunk. When the trunk is
wounded, it dies. It has leaves, flowers and fruits as decoration,
just as humans have hearing, facial features and language
the
mistletoe is its illness. Its death and dying are the season of its
year."
Paracelsus,
European scholar of the middle ages
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