Genius ... another perspective.
For the Romans, ‘genius’ was one word predating our contemporary idea of potential. The Roman word ‘genius’ was used to designate the particular spirit of a place - that convergence in a landscape of plant, terrain and weather whereby, say, any specific tree has an utter, enchanting uniqueness. In a sense, that tree can never exist in the same form at any other moment of time and space.
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