Optimism
More and more I have come to admire resilience.
Not the simple resistance of a pillow, whose foam
returns over and over to the same shape, but the sinuous
tenacity of a tree: finding the light newly blocked on one side,
it turns in another. A blind intelligence, true.
But out of such persistence arose turtles, rivers,
mitochondria, figs–all this resinous, unretractable earth.
–Jane Hirshfield, American poet, born 1953
From: http://www.poetseers.org/contemporary-poets/jane-hirshfield/janep/optimism/index.html
What did the tree learn from the earth to be able to talk with the sky?
~ Pablo Neruda
He who plants a tree
Plants a hope.
~ Lucy Larcom
