Touring New Zealand before COVID, we noticed these really, really tall hedge rows all across the wind swept countryside. They are made of pine trees and would be up to 30 metres high.
PICTURE: Markus Winkler/Unsplash.
They are amazing and must take some effort to maintain. I don’t know how they trim them! But with the cold, driving winds they are a God-send.
It occurred to me that someone – 60, 80, 100 years ago – had to have the vision to plant these things, knowing they would never see the fruit of their labour.
That’s vision. That’s legacy. Selflessness. It makes me wonder, what are we planting now for the next generation?
Not simply physically, but socially, economically, spiritually.
What seeds are we planting now that will be the giants that protect the people of the future?
Worth thinking about.
Paul Clark’s musings can be heard on radio across Australia and at atthetop.org.au.
