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"Si l'on m'annonçait que la fin du monde est pour demain,je planterais
quand même un pommier."
On attribue cette phrase à Martin Luther (Message sur la traduction. 1530).
Certains travaux universitaires contredisent cependant son origine et l’attribue
à Goethe ou même Thoreau.
Quelque en soit son auteur, sa formulation évoque celle de l’espoir éternel.
"Even if I knew the world would end tomorrow, I would continue
to plant my apple trees."
That is the statement of faith traditionally attributed to Martin Luther.
Some skeptic challenged the world of scholarship to demonstrate
exactly where Luther had ever made such a declaration and nobody could
find an exact source. Perhaps, like so many such pieties, the idea really
came from Goethe or perhaps Thoreau.
It does not greatly matter, for the statement itself is one of abiding
hope and abiding truth.
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