The Seed and the Tree
Great things grow from small beginnings. The mighty tree was once a seed. Patience and nurturing transform potential into achievement.
Great things grow from small beginnings. The mighty tree was once a seed. Patience and nurturing transform potential into achievement.
The great tree was once a seed. Nurture small beginnings; great things will follow.
Akan Agricultural Wisdom
Written about in
- What African wisdom says about failure
The great tree was once a seed. Arriving after a failure, this reads less as encouragement than as a correction of scale — you were measuring a seed against a tree and calling the gap a failure.