Tao Te Ching

“What torments me tonight is the gardener's point of view... When by mutation a new rose is born in a garden, all the gardeners rejoice. They isolate the rose, tend it, foster it. But there is no gardener for men... It is the human race and not the individual that is wounded here”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944 CE
from Wind, Sand, and Stars (1939)