If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
One lifetime is never enough to accomplish one's horticultural goals. If a garden is a site for the imagination, how can we be very far from the beginning?
It is hard to imagine 10 years is not quite long enough to learn a lesson.
My kind of composing is more like the work of a gardener. The gardener takes his seeds and scatters them, knowing what he is planting but not quite what will grow where and when - and he won't necessarily be able to reproduce it again afterwards either.
The principal and only way to make an heirloom product is to design something that people will need not just this year, but for the next 50 or 100 years.
Some people take 10 years to write a book and some can do one in under a year.
Humans have lived for much, much longer than the approximately 10,000 years of settled agricultural civilization.
Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
We all know that there are these exemplars who can take the toughest students, and they'll teach them two-and-a-half years of math in a single year.
Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.
I think as a species we're not designed to be able to think more than one year into the future - if that. Even trying to imagine one year from now makes most people feel like they've been given a huge boring chunk of homework that's too hard to do.