Monday, October 18, 2010

A world, planted

October 18.

We say of some plants that they grow in wet places and of others that they grow in desert places. The truth is that their seeds are scattered almost everywhere, but here only do they succeed. 


The development theory implies a greater vital force in nature,  equivalent to a sort of constant new creation.  We find ourselves in a world that is already planted, but is also still being planted as at first.


H. D. Thoreau, Journal,  October 18, 1860

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