While the sage, Honi, was walking along a road, he saw a man planting a carob tree. Honi asked him, “How long will it take for this tree to bear fruit?”
“Seventy years,” replied the man.
Honi then asked, “Are you so healthy a man that you expect to live that length of time and eat its fruit?”
The man answered, “I found a fruitful world because my ancestors planted it for me. Likewise I am planting for my children.”
Babylonian Talmud, Taanit 23a (second or third century)
(no commentary. i think this story speaks for itself. your thoughts?)
This is an ongoing series exploring Teachings on Creation Through the Ages. Quotes are taken from the article of that name in The Green Bible.
Transforming the Body 
There is much wisdom in thinking about our grandchildren and children’s future and how our actions now will influence them then. Planting seeds that we will never see come to full fruition -but others will – that takes love and selflessness.
Great post!
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Does that help put the weeding of the forage experiment in perspective?
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