“It is only when we become conscious of our part in life, however modest, that we shall be happy. (…) When the old peasant of Provence, at the end of his reign, remits into the hands of his sons his parcel of goats and olive-trees in order that they in their turn transmit them to their sons. When one is part of a peasant lineage, one’s death is only half a death. Each life in turn bursts like a pod and sends forth its seed.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. From “Wind, Sand and Stars”.
