“A person should be buried only half a meter, or two feet, below the surface. Then a tree should be planted there. He should be buried in a coffin that decays so that when you plant a tree on top the tree will take something out of his substance and change it into tree-substance. When you visit the grave you don’t visit a dead man, you visit a living being who was just transformed into a tree. You say, “This is my grandfather, the tree is growing well, fantastic.” You can develop a beautiful forest that will be more beautiful than a normal forest because the trees will have their roots in graves. It will be a park, a place for pleasure, a place to live, even a place to hunt.” -Friedensreich Hundertwasser
You are small and so young, little one.
Eat green things, and grow.
Become big and strong and live for many many years.
Live a life filled with love and joy, then create new life and it will be miraculous.
Then your own little ones will eat and grow and become big and strong.
And one day, a long time from now, you will die. Just as I will and your little ones will.
Do not fear this, because everything must die and you have only borrowed those things which have given you long life.
You will die and you will be returned to the soil that made you strong.
And a tree will be planted there.
That tree will be small and weak as you are now. But it’s roots will grow deep and from your body it will become big and strong.
So that from your death, as from your life, new life might spring forth.
And your legacy will join the trees of countless others.
In a forest that stretches as far as the eye can see.
Where wild things roam and birds fly for miles.
And your little ones, who will have become big, will take their little ones, as I have taken you today, and show them the depths of this forest.
This forest of the dead.
This forest of life.