【译文】 孔子说：“人的本性是相近的，只是习俗使人有了差别。”

Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing songs, write poetry and even whittle statues. The story of civilization is the story of what happened on the banks.

今天种下的每一棵树，都是对明天的承诺。