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As I continued to slide down the slope of the crater's outer wall, I thought with surprising clarity about the misery that had marked my life while I was struggling inch by inch to the crest of that vast volcanic mouth. And I saw the singed bark of the stately trees, and I looked down and saw the darkened flesh of my own singed arms. It was then that I realized that I had demonstrated, in my own fragile way, the strength of the tree.