Imagination
“the tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way.
Some see Nature all ridicule and deformity, and some scarce see nature at all.
But to the eyes of the person of imagination, nature is imagination
itself.”
-William Blake, 1799, The Letters
“What
does he who plants a tree?
He plants cool shade and tender
rain.
And
seeds and buds of days to be,
And years that fade and blush
again;
He
plants the glory of the year,
He plants the forests’ heritage-
The harvest of a coming age;
The
joy that unborn eyes will see-
These things he plants
who plants a tree. "
He plants the glory of the year,
The joy that unborn eyes will see-
-anonymous
“Give
fools their gold and knaves their power,
Let
fortune’s bubbles rise and fall;
Who
sows a field, or trains a flower,
Or plants a tree, is more than all.
