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The occasional olive tree sprouts from a crack.
It has been abandoned for so long that a sizable tree sprouts from its broken roof.
In a village in India, a tiny tree sprouts in the unlikeliest of places, the middle of a dusty, well-worn path.
A tree sprouts from a hillock reminiscent of a Chinese scholar's rock, and its flowers — fantastical to the point of being otherworldly — are so finely stitched that they hardly seem handmade.
It is dirty, its streets are littered, it teems with traffic and noise, and yet you can step back from this, step right off the street and into, for instance, the contemplative calm of the now derelict 16th-century monastery Lo Spasimo, where a single Beckettian tree sprouts in the middle of a roofless nave, and feel a part of something outside yourself.
To the naked eye Famagusta's high-rise skyline seems unremarkable, but peer through binoculars provided at the official visitors centre and an unsettling reality comes into focus: a tree sprouts through a window, tatters of 30-year-old laundry flutter across a street.
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I stand in front of a screen, and I see myself as a tree sprouting branches of mini-me's ("Human Tree").
A palm tree sprouted umbrellalike from a pagoda.
Instead there is a hazel tree, sprouted from Cinderella's mother's grave.
Chocolate derives from the seed pods of the cacao tree, sprouting in ridged, garish array direct from the trunk.
One memorable image was the cherry blossom tree sprouting from a pile of debris in the city of Kamaishi, in Iwate Prefecture.
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