Quotation by

Carl Sandburg

Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder.

Nature

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A small, soft plant can grow strong by pushing its roots deeply into the ground and growing upward with enough force to break a hard rock. This shows how persistent natural growth can overcome even tough obstacles over time.

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And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.

I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.

And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.