Gestos Bravos

We can read, right on the first page of The Man Who Planted Trees by Jean Giono, that to get to know an exceptional person one must observe him/her for many years. If we observed the protagonist of history for decades - and other planters in Brazil, India, etc. - we would see how, with the passing of the slow time over the years, they left behind forests built acorn by acorn, shoot by shoot. As we look at the landscape, we see its enormous life project, made up of small, generous and patient gestures, which wait years to know their wonderful result.

When looking at the trail that we leave behind in our day-to-day life, made up of small disinterested and careless gestures, we see a sea of plastic, disappeared species, deforestation and climate change.

We urgently need to look at the impact of our actions not only today, but yesterday and tomorrow of our lives.