From The Tales of Earthsea by Ursula Le Guin. This is from last short story in the collection, titled "Dragonfly," which I read for the first time this morning. I wish my younger self had read this when it came out in 2001, and that they had access to the others in the series before that-- and the second best time to plant a tree is today.

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