The Seed And The Moon by Umpqua Bank
The Seed and the Moon is a modern-day fable from director Kibwe Tavares and Umpqua Bank, the West Coast’s largest, and most unconventional, community bank. We made the soundtrack with Jónsi of Sigur Rós, an Icelandic post-rock band. The poem you are hearing is an excerpt from ‘Good Timber’ by Douglas Malloch, known at the turn of the last century as the Lumberjack Poet. We believe that we are all made to grow, and that no two paths are the same. Hear more stories of growth and transformation on our podcast, Open Account with SuChin Pak, and find your own path at ****** ©2015 Umpqua Bank. Member FDIC. Equal Housing Lender. SBA Preferred Lender.
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The tree that never had to fight
For sun and sky and air and light,
But stood out in the open plain
And always got its share of rain,
Never became a forest king
But lived and died a scrubby thing.
Like the man who never had to toil
To gain and farm his patch of soil,
Who never had to win his share
Of sun and sky and light and air,
Never became a manly man
But lived and died as he began.
Good timber does not grow with ease:
The stronger wind,
the stronger trees;
The further sky, the greater length;
The more the storm, the more the strength.
By sun and cold,
by rain and snow,
In trees and men
good timbers grow.
