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Showing posts with label Antoine de Saint-Exupery. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Antoine de Saint-Exupery. Show all posts

Thursday, March 9, 2017

"Straining to Win the Sky"



The tree is more than first a seed, then a stem, then a living trunk, and then dead timber. The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky. "
~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Wisdom of the Sands, translated from French by Stuart Gilbert