These joint decision-making systems encourage, as Cicero tells the…

These joint decision-making systems encourage, as Cicero tells the story, old men to plant trees so their grandchildren will have shade. These systems encourage copper beech trees, which need 150 years to mature, to be planted today, as there is no time to waste to get them started growing.

— from Legacy / The Logbook (Legacy/Epilogue)

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Children who know the story of where they came from turn out stronger, steadier, more confident, because the story connects them to something larger than themselves and gives them the ground to stand on. The old men who plant trees knowing they will never sit in the shade understand this in their bones — and so the copper beech that needs a hundred and fifty years to mature has to be planted today. That is what it means to think seven generations out. — Legacy / The Logbook (Legacy/Epilogue)

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