„Ešte nikdy som nevidel nespokojný strom. Držia sa zeme, akoby sa im páčila, a hoci majú hlboké korene, prejdú asi toľko ako my. S každým vetrom sa potulujú do všetkých smerov, odchádzajú a prichádzajú ako my, cestujú s nami okolo slnka dva milióny míľ denne a cez vesmír nevedno ako rýchlo a ďaleko!“
Originál
I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do. They go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far!
July 1890, page 313
(From Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays, Second Series (1844) "Essay VI: Nature": "the trees are imperfect men, and seem to bemoan their imprisonment, rooted in the ground.")
John of the Mountains, 1938
Kontext: It has been said that trees are imperfect men, and seem to bemoan their imprisonment rooted in the ground. But they never seem so to me. I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do. They go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far!
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