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“Society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.” ― Anonymous Greek Proverb
by frankbreetz 7y ago
“Society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.”
― Anonymous Greek Proverb
- MandieD 7y agoAnd it feels that instead, old men have been demanding that young people cut down the trees for the old men to burn.
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- yummybear 7y agoThere are old people who've been arrested for pro climate actions, there are young people who are in charge of cutting down the rainforest. It's complicated, and reducing it to old men vs. young people only removes focus from the actual problems at hand.
- izacus 7y agoThe results of elections across USA and Europe are pretty much telling though: There's a big divide between older cohorts and younger cohorts about climate change, housing and other sustainability policies.
- xenophonf 7y agoThat's not a Greek proverb. It was written in 1951 by Elton Trueblood, a Quaker, in his book The Life We Prize: https://www.roger-pearse.com/weblog/2017/08/26/a-society-grows-great-when-old-men-plant-trees-in-whose-shade-they-know-they-shall-never-sit-an-ancient-greek-proverb/comment-page-1/ https://www.roger-pearse.com/weblog/2017/08/26/a-society-gro... The book is available to loan from the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/lifeweprize00true https://archive.org/details/lifeweprize00true
- Filligree 7y agoSomewhat unsurprising. If there's one religious group I'm okay with, it's the Quakers.