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on an all-or-nothing basis. Happily, In Training, was embraced by the bonsai community and funded. e “investors” are acknowledged in the book. Leaders in our community; Ryan Neal for example, played a pivotal role in rallying interest and bringing the project to completion. Happily, the involvement of the investors makes it possible for this wonderful work to have a wide circulation.
To end, I would like to present some images that Stephen has shared, to convey just some of the richness to be found in this work. Figures 7 and 8, like Figures 3 and 4, present alternative views of the same maple tree that o er very di erent viewing experiences.
In Figure 9, attention is drawn to the contrast between age and youth in an almost beguiling fashion. We are accustomed to hearing that the whole is greater than the sum of the parts but we are the poorer if we only see the whole. A number of the presented
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