The act of writing is an act of optimism. You would not take the trouble to do it if you felt it didn't matter.

People are curious. A few people are. They will be driven to find things out, even trivial things. They will put things together, knowing all along that they may be mistaken. You see them going around with notebooks, scraping the dirt off gravestones, reading microfilm, just in the hope of seeing this trickle in time, making a connection, rescuing one thing from the rubbish.

我们今天种植的每一棵树都是留给后代的遗产。

Profit without purpose is ultimately unsustainable.