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the tree so smooth that lovers carve it, and the carvings outlive the lovers
living bookold English 'boc' for book traces to beech bark
smooth barkthin skin makes it a magnet for graffiti
mastingtrees synchronize huge seed years across whole forests
shade tyrantdense canopy starves rivals of light below
otzi's arrowsthe iceman carried beech-tar glue 5,000 years ago