The apple!
The Seven Wisdoms of the Apple
- When you play Power on an apple you bruise it and it is never the same lovely apple again.
- Small apples, which are not fully grown or really sweet, aren’t the result of a shortage of competence or skill on the part of the apple tree – they have been denied the natural energy of nature. They are deprived.
- One bad apple can affect the whole box.
- It is easy to count the number of seeds in an apple, but it is not so easy to count the number of apples in each seed.
- Every apple you ever see is absolutely unique. So is every human, every leaf and every snowflake.
- If you don’t harvest the apples as they ripen and they rot and fall to the ground the tree begins to die and the next year produces fewer and less perfect apples – and even fewer the following year, until it dies prematurely. So it is with humans.
- Imagine that the apple is our planet. Cut it into four quarters and throw three of these away, this is the part of the planet covered by water. Cut the last quarter in half. Discard one piece, because it is the mountains. Cut the last piece into four thin slices. Discard three of these, for they are the areas covered by deserts, tarmac, cities, human habitation and infertile rocky soils and dense forests. Peel the skin off the last little piece. That skin represents the only fertile top soil left on the planet on which the entire burgeoning human race and all living things depend!
