
Afraid of nonexistence.

“It was the year he began to wonder about the noise that colors make. Roses came roaring across the garden at him. He lay on his bed at night listening to the silver light of stars crashing against the window screen.”
– Anne Carson, from Autobiography of Red


The rest of the article is behind a paywall, but this preview is still pretty great.
Trees may have a ‘heartbeat’ that is so slow we never noticed it