道の縁、アスファルトと丸太のわずかな隙間から、白い花がいきおいよく噴き出していました。誰が植えたわけでもありません。ただ種が落ち、根を張り、咲いた。この村を歩いていると、草木の生命力にただただ圧倒されます。コンクリートの裂け目さえ、初夏にはこんなにも緑であふれてしまうのです。
English
At the road’s edge, in a thin seam between asphalt and a cut log, a spray of white daisies has burst into the light. No one planted them. A seed fell, took root, and bloomed — that was all. Walk through this village and you are overwhelmed, again and again, by the sheer will of growing things. Even a crack in the concrete is no barrier: by early summer it has brimmed over with green, as if the whole valley were quietly insisting on life.