Posted: Fri Jun 23, 2006 10:03 pm Post subject: Trees
He shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water,
that brings forth its fruit in its season,
whose leaf also shall not wither;
and whatever he does shall prosper.
- Psalms, 1.3
Thou shalt not destroy the trees thereof by forcing an axe against them:
for thou mayest eat of them, and thou shalt not cut them down
(for the tree of the field is man's life)...
- Deuteronomy 20:19
Trees
~Harry Behn~
Trees are the kindest things I know,
They do no harm, they simply grow.
And spread a shade for sleepy cows,
And gather birds among their boughs.
They give us fruit in leaves above,
And wood to make our houses of,
And leaves to burn on Halloween,
And in the Spring new buds of green.
They are first when the day's begun
To touch the beams of morning sun,
They are the last to hold the light
When evening changes into night.
And when a moon floats on the sky
They hum a drowsy lullaby,
Of sleepy children long ago...
Trees are the kindest things I know.
If a tree dies, plant another in its place.
Linnaeus
"Close to the Gates a spacious Garden lies,
From the Storms defended and inclement Skies;
Four Acres was the allotted Space of Ground,
Fenc'd with a green Enclosure all around.
Tall thriving Trees confessed the fruitful Mold:
The reddening Apple ripens here to Gold,
Here the blue Fig with luscious Juice overflows,
With deeper Red the full Pomegranate glows,
The Branch here bends beneath the weighty Pear,
and verdant Olives flourish round the Year."
- Homer, Odyssey, circa 850 B.C.
Alexander Pope's translation, 1725
If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day,
he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends
his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making
the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an
industrious and enterprising citizen.
- Henry David Thoreau
Much can they praise the trees so straight and high,
The sailing pine,the cedar proud and tall,
The vine-prop elm, the poplar never dry,
The builder oak, sole king of forests all,
The aspin good for staves, the cypress funeral,
The laurel, meed of mighty conquerors
And poets sage, the fir that weepest still,
The yew obedient to the bender's will,
The birch for shafts, the sallow for the mill,
The myrrh sweet-bleeding in the bitter wound,
The warlike beech, the ash for nothing ill,
The fruitful olive, and the platane round,
The carver holm, the maple seldom inward sound.
Edmund Spenser, Faerie Queene
Every tree near our house had a name of its own and a special identity.
This was the beginning of my love for natural things, for earth and sky,
for roads and fields and woods, for trees and grass and flowers; a love
which has been second only to my sense of enduring kinship with
birds and animals, and all inarticulate creatures.
- Ellen Glasgow (1874-1945)
Someone's sitting in the shade today because
someone planted a tree a long time ago.
- Warren Buffett
I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.
A tree whose hungry mouth is pressed
Against the earth's sweet flowing breast;
- Joyce Kilmer, Trees
Of all man's works of art, a cathedral is greatest.
A vast and majestic tree is greater than that.
- Henry Ward Beecher, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit, 1870
There was a handsome male mockingbird that sang his heart out
every morning during the nesting season from the top of a tall
Norfolk Pine tree. Last week the tree was cut down. The
mockingbird and his song are gone. I can't put a dollar value
on the tree nor on the mockingbird nor on his song. But I know
that I - and our whole neighborhood - have suffered a loss. I
wouldn't know how to count it in dollars.
- Jacquelyn Hiller
The lofty oak from a small acorn grows.
- Lewis Duncombe, De Minimus Maxima
If I thought I was going to die tomorrow,
I should nevertheless plant a tree today.
- Stephan Girard
The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied, 'In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!'
- As told by John F. Kennedy
I'd like to go by climbing a birch tree,
And climb black branches up a snow-white trunk
Toward heaven, till the tree could bear no more,
But dipped its top and set me down again.
That would be good both going and coming back.
One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.
- Robert Frost, Birch Trees
There's a tree that grows in Brooklyn. Some people call it the
Tree of Heaven. No matter where its seed falls, it makes a tree
which struggles to reach the sky. It grows in boarded up plots
and out of neglected rubbish heaps. It grows up out of cellar
gratings. It is the only tree that grows out of cement. It grows
lushly ... survives without sun, water and seemingly without
earth. It would be considered beautiful except
that there are too many of it.
- Betty Smith, 1896-1972
The wonder is that we can see these trees and not wonder more.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds.
A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy
reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.
- Basil
Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us that we are nothing but acorns and that our greatest happiness will be to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns; but that is of interest only to pigs. Our faith gives us knowledge of something better:
that we can become oak trees.
- E.F. Schumacher
As I age
in the world it will rise and spread,
and be for this place horizon
and orison, the voice of its winds.
I have made myself a dream to dream
of its rising, that has gentled my nights.
Let me desire and wish well the life
these trees may live when I
no longer rise in the mornings
to be pleased with the green of them
shining, and their shadows on the ground,
and the sound of the wind in them.
- Wendell Berry, Planting Trees
He that planteth a tree is a servant of God, he
provideth a kindness for many generations, and
faces that he hath not seen shall bless him.
- Henry Van Dyke
The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see Nature all ridicule and deformity, and some scarce see Nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, Nature is Imagination itself.
- William Blake, 1799, The Letters
I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beech-tree,
or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines.
- Henry David Thoreau, 1817 - 1862
Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?
- Walt Whitman, Song of the Open Road
Though a tree grows so high, the falling leaves return to the root. Malay proverb
Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come.- Chinese proverb
I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way
they have to live than other things do.
- Willa Cather (1873-1947), O Pioneers 1913
I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Perhaps, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1933
The groves were God's first temples.
- William Cullen Bryant, A Forest Hymn
From a fallen tree, all make kindling.
-
If a tree dies, plant another in its place.
- Linnaeus
Of the infinite variety of fruits which spring from the bosom of the earth, the trees of the wood are the greatest in dignity.
- Susan Fenimore Cooper
And see the peaceful trees extend
their myriad leaves in leisured dance—
they bear the weight of sky and cloud upon the fountain of their veins.
- Kathleen Raine, Envoi
A tree falls the way it leans.
Bulgarian Proverb
People in suburbia see trees differently than foresters do. They cherish every one. It is useless to speak of the probability that a certain tree will die when the tree is in someone's backyard .... You are talking about a personal asset, a friend,
a monument, not about board feet of lumber.
- Roger Swain
The evergreen! How beautiful, how welcome, how wonderful the evergreen! When one thinks of it, how astonishing a variety of nature! In some countries we know that the tree that sheds its leaf is the variety, but that does not make it less amazing, that the same soil and the same sun should nurture plants
differing in the first rule and law of their existence.
- Jane Austen, Mansfield Park, 1814
Sometimes Thou may'st walk in Groves,
which being full of Majestie will much advance the Soul.
- Thomas Vaughan, Anima Magica Abscondita
If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason.
- Jack Handey
Oak trees come out of acorns, no matter how unlikely that seems. An acorn is just a tree's way back into the ground. For another try. Another trip through. One life for another.
- Shirley Ann Grau
The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
O chestnut tree, great rooted blossomer,
Are you the leaf, the blossom or the bole?
O body swayed to music, O brightening glance,
How can we know the dancer from the dance.
- William Butler Yeats, Among School Children
A man is a bundle of relations, a knot of roots,
whose flower and fruitage is the world.
- Ralph W. Emerson, 1803 - 1882
There is, I conceive, scarcely any tree that may not be advantageously used in the various combinations of form and color.
- Gilpin
Alone with myself
The trees bend to caress me
The shade hugs my heart
- Candy Polgar
Many people, other than the authors, contribute to the making of a book, from the first person who had the bright idea of alphabetic writing through the inventor of movable
type to the lumberjacks who felled the trees that were pulped for its printing. It is not customary to acknowledge the trees themselves, though their commitment is total.
- Rada and Forsyth, Machine Learning
What kind of times are they, when
A talk about trees is almost a crime
Because it implies silence about so many horrors?
- Bertolt Brecht, To Those Born Later
Larger and finer meanings are read into the older legends of the plants, and the universality of certain myths is expressed in the concurrence of ideas in the beginnings of the great religions. One of the first figures in the leading cosmologies is a tree of life guarded by a serpent. In the Judaic faith this was the tree in the garden of Eden; the Scandinavians made it an ash, Ygdrasil; Christians usually specify the tree as an apple, Hindus as a soma, Persians as a homa, Cambodians
as a talok; this early treee is the vine of Bacchus, the snake-entwined caduceus of Mercury, the twining creeper of the Eddas, the bohidruma of Buddha, the fig of
Isaiah, the tree of Aesculapius with the serpent around his trunk.
- Charles M. Skinner, Myths and Legends of Flowers, Trees, Fruits and Plants, 1911
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That each day I may walk unceasingly on the banks of my water, that my soul may repose on the branches of the trees which I planted, that I may refresh myself under the shadow of my sycamore.
- Egyptian tomb inscription, circa 1400 BCE
Sycomore trees were held to be sacred in ancient Egypt and are the first trees represented in ancient art.
That tree whose leaves are trembling:
is yearning for something.
That tree so lovely to see acts as if it wants to flower:
it is yearning for something.
Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, 1395
There is enough misery in the world without thinking of Norway maples. Henry Mitchell
Do not be afraid to go out on a limb ... That's where the fruit is.
- Anonymous
Life without love is like a tree without blossom and fruit.
- Khalil Gibran
In creating, the only hard thing's to begin;
a grass-blade's no easier to make than an oak.
- James Russell Lowell
One impulse from a vernal wood
May teach you more of man,
Of moral evil and of good,
Than all the ages can.
- William Wordsworth, The Tables Turned
A virgin forest is where the hand of man has never set foot.
- Author Unknown
And you, how old are you?
I asked the maple tree:
While opening one hand,
- he started blushing.
- Georges Bonneau, Le Sensibilite Japonaise, 1935
Dodoitsu
The pine tree seems to listen, the fir tree to wait: and both without impatience: - they give no thought to the little people beneath them devoured by their impatience and their curiosity.
- Friedrich Nietzsche, The Wanderer and His Shadow
There are two trees, each yielding its own fruit. One of them is negative....it grows from lack of self-worth and its fruits are fear, anger, envy, bitterness, sorrow - and any other negative emotion. Then there is the tree of positive emotions. Its nutrients include self-forgiveness and a correct self
concept. Its fruits are love, joy, acceptance, self-esteem, faith, peace...and other uplifting emotions.
- Kathi's Garden
In an orchard there should be enough to eat, enough to lay up,
enough to be stolen, and enough to rot on the ground.
- James Boswell
A tree does not move unless there is wind.
- Afghan Proverb
This solitary Tree! a living thing
Produced too slowly ever to decay;
Of form and aspect too magnificent
To be destroyed.
- William Wordsworth, Yardley Oak
Each time these blossoms open I recall the friend who gave me the saplings,
And the times we used to stop to drink beneath his trees;
But those springs of twenty years ago are like a dream,
And the wine cups of those days are tea-bowls now.
- Kisei Reigen
To be able to walk under the branches of a tree that you have planted is really to feel you have arrived with your garden. So far we are on the way: we can now stand beside ours.
- Mirabel Osler
I was raised by the song
Of the murmuring grove
And loving I learned
Among Flowers.
- Friedrich Holderlin
Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees,
then names the streets after them.
- Bill Vaughan
Blue sky, golden cloud ...
What a feeling of forever!
The languid tree-tops
lithely remain mysterious.
A sign, you would think.
- Alberto Blanco, First Star
Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath,
no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.
- George Bernard Shaw
Tall thriving Trees confessed the fruitful Mold:
The reddening Apple ripens here to Gold,
Here the blue Fig with luscious Juice overflows,
With deeper Red the full Pomegranate glows,
The Branch here bends beneath the weighty Pear,
and verdant Olives flourish round the Year.
- Homer
Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience.
Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.
Hal Borland, Countryman: A Summary of Belief
Trees are the best monuments that a man can erect to his own memory. They speak his praises without flattery, and they are
blessings to children yet unborn.
- Lord Orrery, 1749
They kill good trees to put out bad newspapers.
- James G. Watt
Tree at my window, window tree,
My sash is lowered when night comes on;
But let there never be curtain drawn
Between you and me.
- Robert Frost
Beloved, gaze in thine own heart,
The holy tree is growing there;
From joy the holy branches start,
And all the trembling flowers they bear.
The changing colours of its fruit
Have dowered the stars with metry light;
The surety of its hidden root
Has planted quiet in the night;
The shaking of its leafy head
Has given the waves their melody,
And made my lips and music wed,
Murmuring a wizard song for thee.
- William Butler Yeats, The Two Trees
And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
- William Shakespeare
A tree that grows crooked will never straighten its trunk.
A seed hidden in the heart of an apple is an orchard invisible.
- A Welsh proverb
A tree never hits an automobile except in self-defense.
- Author Unknown
A garden without trees scarcely deserves to be called a garden.
- Henry Ellacombe
Trees are poems that earth writes upon the sky,
We fell them down and turn them into paper,
That we may record our emptiness.
- Kahlil Gibran
Hmmm ... we chop down trees and chop up wood.
Someone's sitting in the shade today because
someone planted a tree a long time ago.
- Warren Buffett
Annihilating all that's made,
To a green thought in a green shade.
- Andrew Marvell
We have nothing to fear and a great deal to learn
from trees, that vigorous and pacific tribe which
without stint produces strengthening essences for
us, soothing balms, and in whose gracious company
we spend so many cool, silent and intimate hours.
- Marcel Proust, Pleasures and Regrets, 1896
All it has experienced, tasted, suffered:
The course of years, generations of animals,
Oppression, recovery, friendship of sun and - Wind
Will pour forth each day in the song
Of its rustling foliage, in the friendly
Gesture of its gently swaying crown,
In the delicate sweet scent of resinous
Sap moistening the sleep-glued buds,
And the eternal game of lights and
Shadows it plays with itself, content.
- Herman Hesse, 1877 - 1962
Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a
thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed.
- George H. Lewis, 1817 - 1878
Good timber does not grow with ease;
the stronger the wind, the stronger the trees.
- J. Willard Marriott
Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow.
The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
- Abraham Lincoln
As an instrument of planetary home repair,
it is hard to imagine anything as safe as a tree.
- Jonathan Weiner
The beauty of the trees,
the softness of the air,
the fragrance of the grass,
speaks to me.
The summit of the mountain,
the thunder of the sky,
speaks to me.
The faintness of the stars,
the trail of the sun,
the strength of fire,
and the life that never goes away,
they speak to me.
And my heart soars.
- Chief Dan George
He who plants a tree, plants a hope.
- Lucy Larcom, Plant a Tree
Woodman, spare that tree!
Touch not a single bough!
In youth it sheltered me,
And I'll protect it now.
- General George P. Morris
A society grows great when old men plant trees
whose shade they know they shall never sit in.
Greek Proverb
Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth. They do not preach learning and precepts, they preach undeterred
by particulars, the ancient law of life.
- Hermann Hesse, Wandering
My lilac trees are old and tall;
I cannot reach their bloom at all.
They send their perfume over trees
And roof and streets, to find the bees.
- Lousie Driscoll, 1875 - 1957, My Garden Is a Pleasant Place
A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
William Blake, Proverbs of Hell, 1790
A man does not plant a tree for himself, he plants it for posterity. - Alexander Smith
May my life be like a great hospitable tree,
and may weary wanderers find in me a rest.
- John Henry Jowett
My heart is glad, my heart is high
With sudden ecstasy;
I have given back, before I die,
Some thanks for every lovely tree
That dead men grew for me.
- V. H. Friedlaender
The woods are full of faeries!
The trees are all alive;
The river overflows with them,
See how they dip and dive!
What funny little fellows!
What dainty little dears!
They dance and leap, and prance and peep,
And utter fairy cheers!
- Anonymous
Sensing us, the trees tremble in their sleep,
The living leaves recoil before our fires,
Baring to us war-charred and broken branches,
And seeing theirs, we for our own destruction weep.
- Kathleen Raine, London Trees
There is always Music amongst the trees in the Garden,
but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it.
- Minnie Aumonier
As the poet said, "Only God can make a tree,"
probably because it's so hard to figure out
how to get the bark on.
- Woody Allen
I'll lie here and learn How, over their ground,
Trees make a long shadow And a light sound.
- Louise Bogan, 1898-1970
God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods.
But he cannot save them from fools.
- John Muir
Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces,
I would still plant my apple tree.
- Martin Luther (1483-1546)
You can live for years next door
to a big pine tree, honored to have
so venerable a neighbor, even
when it sheds needles all over your flowers
or wakes you, dropping big cones
onto your deck at still of night.
- Denise Levertov, Threat
It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanates from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Here may I live what life I please,
Married and buried out of sight,
- Married to pleasure and buried to pain, -
Hidden away amongst scenes like these,
Under the fans of the chestnut trees;
Living my child-life over again,
With the further hope of a fallen delight,
Blithe as the birds and wise as the bees.
- Violet Fane, In Green Old Gardens, 1843 - 1905
From such crooked wood as that which man is made of,
nothing straight can be fashioned.
Immanuel Kant
If what I say resonates with you, it is merely
because we are both branches on the same tree.
- W.. B . Yeats
Oh to be free of myself,
With nothing left to remember,
To have my heart as bare
As a tree in December;
Resting, as a tree rests
After its leaves are gone,
Waiting no more for a rain at night
Nor for the red at dawn;
- Sara Teasdale, The Tree
The chestnut's proud, and the lilac's pretty,
The poplar's gentle and tall,
But the plain tree's kind to the poor dull city -
I love him best of all.
- Edith Nesbit, 1858-1924
Man is nature as much as the trees.
- Dan Kiley, American landscape designer
The talking oak
To the ancient spoke.
But any tree
Will talk to me.
- Mary Carolyn Davies
Boys need wood to chop.
- Stephen D. Nadauld
He that plants trees loves others beside himself.
- Thomas Fuller
They are beautiful in their peace, they are wise in their silence.
They will stand after we are dust. They teach us, and we tend them.
- Galeain ip Altiem MacDunelmor
I am not bound for any public place,
but for ground of my own
where I have planted vines and orchard trees,
and in the heat of the day climbed up
into the healing shadow of the woods.
- Wendell Berry
Just think of the trees: they let the birds perch and fly, with no intention to call them when they come and no longing for their return when they fly away. If people's hearts can be like the trees, they will not be off the Way.
- Langya
If a tree is treated as a living organism, with an understanding of its vital functions, it will be a constant source of profit and pleasure to men.
- N.T. Mirov
Stand Tall and Proud
Sink your roots deeply into the Earth
Reflect the light of a greater source
Think long term
Go out on a limb
Remember your place among all living beings
Embrace with joy the changing seasons
For each yields its own abundance
The Energy and Birth of Spring
The Growth and Contentment of Summer
The Wisdom to let go of leaves in the Fall
The Rest and Quiet Renewal of Winter
- Ilan Shamir, Advice From a Tree
Of all the wonders of nature, a tree in summer
is perhaps the most remarkable; with the possible
exception of a moose singing "Embraceable You" in spats.
- Woody Allen
It seemed a strange thing to him, when earth was earth and rain was rain, that scrawny pines should grow in the scrub, while by every branch and lake and river there grew magnolias. Dogs were the same everywhere, and oxen and mules and horses. But trees were different in different places.
- Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, 1896-1953
If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame
the wind for revealing them to the trees.
- Khalil Gibran
I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do. They go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far!
- John Muir
Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets.
To plant a pine, one need only own a shovel.
- Aldo Leopold
Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.
- Winston Churchill
The best friend of earth of man is the tree. When we use the tree respectfully and economically, we have one of the greatest resources on the earth.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
If we represent knowledge as a tree, we know that things that
are divided are yet connected. We know that to observe the
divisions and ignore the connections is to destroy the tree.
- Wendell Berry
Bread and butter, devoid of charm in the drawing room,
is ambrosia eaten under a tree.
- Elizabeth Von Antrim
Evil enters like a needle and spreads like a oak tree.
- Proverb from Ethiopia
The bud is on the bough again,
The leaf is on the tree.
- Charles Jefferys, The Meeting of Spring and Summer
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
-Nelson Henderson
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
- Henry David Thoreau, Walden
Of all man's works of art, a cathedral is greatest.
A vast and majestic tree is greater than that.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Pines against the sky,
Pluming the purple hill;
Pines . . . and I wonder why,
Heart, you quicken and thrill?
Wistful heart of a boy,
Fill with a strange sweet joy,
Lifting to Heaven nigh -
Pines against the sky.
Palms against the sky,
Failing the hot, hard blue;
Stark on the beach I lie,
Dreaming horizons new;
Heart of my youth elate,
Scorning a humdrum fate,
Keyed to adventure high -
Palms against the sky.
Oaks against the sky,
Ramparts of leaves high-hurled,
Staunch to stand and defy
All the winds of the world;
Stalwart and proud and free,
Firing the man in me
To try and again to try -
Oaks against the sky.
Olives against the sky
Of evening, limpidly bright;
Tranquil and soft and shy,
Dreaming in amber light;
Breathing the peace of life,
Ease after toil and strife . . .
Hark to their silver sigh!
Olives against the sky.
Cypresses glooming the sky,
Stark at the end of the road;
Failing and faint am I,
Lief to be eased of my load;
There where the stones peer white
in the last of the silvery light,
Quiet and cold I'll lie -
Cypresses etching the sky.
Trees, trees against the sky -
O I have loved them well!
There are pleasures you cannot buy,
Treasurers you cannot sell,
And not the smallest of these
Is the gift and glory of trees. . . .
So I gaze and I know now why
It is good to live - and to die. . . .
Trees and the Infinite Sky.
Come let us watch the sun go down
and walk in twilight through the orchard's green.
Does it not seem as if we had for long
collected, saved and harbored within us
old memories? To find releases and seek
new hopes, remembering half-forgotten joys,
mingled with darkness coming from within,
as we randomly voice our thoughts aloud
wandering beneath these harvest-laden trees
reminiscent of Durer woodcuts, branches
which, bent under the fully ripened fruit,
wait patiently, trying to outlast, to
serve another season's hundred days of toil,
straining, uncomplaining, by not breaking
but succeeding, even though the burden
should at times seem almost past endurance.
Not to falter! Not to be found wanting!
Thus must it be, when willingly you strive
throughout a long and uncomplaining life,
committed to one goal: to give yourself!
And silently to grow and to bear fruit.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke ~
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