“Foolishness? No, It’s Not.
Sometimes I spend all day trying to
count the leaves on a single tree. To do this I have to climb branch by branch
and write down the numbers in a little book. So I suppose, from their point of
view, it’s reasonable that my friends say: what foolishness! She’s got her head
in the clouds again.
But it’s not. Of course I have to
give up, but by then I’m half crazy with the wonder of it — the abundance of
the leaves, the quietness of the branches, the hopelessness of my effort. And I
am in that delicious and important place, roaring with laughter, full of
earth-praise.”
image: File:Thomas Fearnley - Old Birch Tree at the Sognefjord - Google ArtProject.jpg - Wikimedia Commons
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