the persistence of trees

Not so much for the way it is said (which, frankly, strikes me as a bit of a mouthful), but for what is said.


Optimism

More and more I have come to admire resilience.
Not the simple resistance of a pillow, whose foam
returns over and over to the same shape, but the sinuous
tenacity of a tree: finding the light newly blocked on one side,
it turns in another. A blind intelligence, true.
But out of such persistence arose turtles, rivers,
mitochondria, figs - all this resinous, unretractable earth.

(Jane Hirshfield)
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