Start with the observation

Each spring, innumerable living forms return through mixed soil with distinct shapes, colors and needs.

Follow the reasoning

  1. The return is not a crude repetition: identities are preserved within astonishing abundance.
  2. A power that continually restores complex life before our eyes cannot be called incapable of another restoration merely because it is unfamiliar to us.
  3. The first making and the repeated making belong to the same question of power and knowledge.

A passage to hold beside it

“Where do they come from? Where are they going? Why do they come here, stay only briefly, and depart?” 1

Read plainly

Spring does not by itself describe another life. It removes the claim that restoration is unthinkable.

Try observing this

Examine a patch of returning growth and attend to both abundance and distinction.

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