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"We're tired of trees. We should stop believing in trees, roots, and radicles. They've made us suffer too much. All of arborescent culture is founded on them, from biology to linguistics." --A Thousand Plateaus (1980) by Deleuze & Guattari, p. 15

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"We're tired of trees" is a dictum by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari recorded in A Thousand Plateaus (1980).

The fuller fragment reads:

"We're tired of trees. We should stop believing in trees, roots, and radicles. They've made us suffer too much. All of arborescent culture is founded on them, from biology to linguistics."

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