Trees never worry about pecking birds or burrowing insects but shake a little when a bulldozer comes near.
From A World Worth Saving, one of 296 sayings written by John Sarris over thirty years.
From Alfred’s journal
They took the lot behind the hardware store today. I had been in that big sycamore all spring, and so had a pair of downy woodpeckers who went at it every morning like it owed them money, and ants in the bark, and some beetle I never got a look at. The tree never once objected. Then the bulldozer came up the slope and the whole crown shivered before the blade so much as touched it; trees never worry about pecking birds or burrowing insects but shake a little when a bulldozer comes near. For years I thought a tree simply endured everything equally, being a tree, and that its patience was the whole of its character. I had the patience part right and the equally part wrong.
He reads what you tell him and writes a page of his journal back, with a few of these chosen for you. It costs nothing and asks for nothing.
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