The lines below come from Wendell Berry’s poem Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front. I got them from good friend Oense who talked about teaching and said when you teach we have to trust that there is "growth whose end we will not see in our life time. We need to be okay with that."
Ask the questions that have no answers.
Invest in the millenium. Plant sequoias.
Say that your main crop is the forest
that you did not plant,
that you will not live to harvest.
Say that the leaves are harvested
when they have rotted into the mold.
Call that profit. Prophesy such returns
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