Someone who knows enough to become the owner of a tree, and gives than…

Saint Augustine
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Someone who knows enough to become the owner of a tree, and gives thanks to you for the benefits it brings him, is in a better state, even if ignorant of its height in feet and the extent of its spread, than another who measures and counts all its branches but neither owns it nor knows its creator nor loves him. ✨ Saint Augustine (1997). The Confessions, p.117
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