I felt that I was not, never had been and never would be a living part of this overpoweringly solid and deeply meaningful world around me.

This was the tree, and it seemed to me standing there to resemble those men, the giants of your childhood, whom you encounter years later and find that they are not merely smaller in relation to your growth, but they are absolutely smaller, shrunken by age. In this double demotion the old giants have become pygmies while you were looking the other way.

I could not escape a feeling that this was my own funeral, and you do not cry in that case.

Well, you know, there was the most enormous youth rebellion during the '30s. There was the Peace Pledge Union, which supposedly involved the cream of British youth. They thought wars were ridiculous and said just what everybody says today. They said they would not fight in any war.

We want this tree to be a sign of peace and reconciliation.

Judgment is a key player that separates humanity from an everlasting peace.