"A tree so big that it takes both arms to surround starts out as the tiniest shoot;
A nine-story terrace rises up from a pile of dirt.
A high place one hundred, one thousand feet high begins from under your feet."
- Lines 7-9, Chapter 64, "Tao-Te Ching", Lao Tzu
(translated by Robert G. Henricks)
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