Painterly green sapling growing through the centre of a weathered tree stump.

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The Tree

There is no immortality but a tree's love.

— The Last Unicorn  ·  1982

Behind the line

What it means

Our interpretation.

The line presents a tree’s love as the only form of immortality. By granting lasting devotion to something rooted and living, it links emotional endurance with the natural world. This is a poetic claim about permanence, placing love above other hopes of survival.

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