Beneath the Surface

Tree Lesson #2 - The Chinese Bamboo

I first read about the Chinese Bamboo in Stephen Covey's book "The seven habits of highly effective families":

  "After the seed for this amazing tree is planted, you see nothing, absolutely nothing, for four years except a tiny shoot coming out of a bulb.  During those four years, all the growth is underground in a massive fiberous root structure that spreads deep and wide in the earth.  But then in the fifth year the Chinese Bamboo grows up to eighty feet!"

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