Trees have long thoughts

Trees: Reflections and Poems

7 Nov 2014 | From Kristina of Russia

POSTCROSSING FRIEND

I love trees. And I came about this wonderfully written poem when I was randomly browsing the internet. The poem was written by Hermann Hesse, a German born Swiss poet, novelist, and painter. 

"So the tree rustles in the evening, when we stand uneasy before our own childish thoughts: Trees have long thoughts, long-breathing and restful, just as they have longer lives than ours. They are wiser than we are, as long as we do not listen to them. But when we have learned how to listen to trees, then the brevity and the quickness and the childlike hastiness of our thoughts achieve an incomparable joy. Whoever has learned how to listen to trees no longer wants to be a tree. He wants to be nothing except what he is. That is home. That is happiness."

Hermann Hesse / Trees have long thoughts

Trees: Reflections and Poems