title: Tree Whisperer: The Story of Wilhelm Habel
author:  Norman C. Habel 
description: Norman Habel is Professorial Fellow at Flinders University in Adelaide. He has long been involved in issues of biblical interpretation and social justice, with a special concern that we, as human beings, reconnect with Earth as a sanctuary and a living planet. He is the author of several significant publications, notably The Earth Bible, a five volume international project he edited with other scholars, reading the Bible from the perspective of justice for Earth. Tree Whisperer is his first novel.
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  # The Tree of Heaven
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### May Sinclair
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  This page formatted 2004 Munsey's.
  
  
  http://www.munseys.com
  
  PART I. PEACE
  
  
    
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  II
  
  
    
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  PART II. THE VORTEX
  
  
    
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  PART III. VICTORY
  
  
    
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  E-text prepared by Rick Niles, Charlie Kirschner, and the
  
  
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  THE TREE OF HEAVEN
  
  
  by
  
  
  MAY SINCLAIR
  
  
  Author of _The Belfry_ , _The Three Sisters_ , etc.
  
  
  1918
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## PART I. PEACE
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### I
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
    
  Frances Harrison was sitting out in the garden under the tree that
  
  
  her husband called an ash-tree, and that the people down in her part of
  
  
  the country called a tree of Heaven.
  
  
    
  It was warm under the tree, and Frances might have gone to sleep
  
  
  there and wasted an h